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Speaking of Rick James, I have never seen this picture before....

NOT SAFE FOR WORK WARNING

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I have never understood the word "sweet" to describe someone gay or gay looking. People ain't seen such hell on earth until you a cross a gay person because they will scheme and get revenge or die trying (I know I do). That's far from sweet, hell that's rattlesnake venom.

vainandy said:

I remember that picture.

vainandy said:

DAYUM!!! Is this a photo outtake from the 'Throwin Down' album photo shoot?

FrenchGuy said:

Mase was a regular on the tranny stroll. On tranny strolls, they're usually tranny prostitutes. Makes sense, right? I guess Eddie Murphy didn't know either. HMMMMM
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Cotontige said:

He already said he's gay.

Sandino said:

sosgemini said:

OK, that's it!

All of you want androgynous? I'll show you androgynous.





No one plays the androgynous card like The Army Of Lovers. Honest!

I think Sisco was the last one I can think of? Hmmmm..

vainandy said:

The Sweets -- Ballroom Blitz


Notice the bass player taking the feminine role too seriously in the intro.
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TonyVanDam said:

Do you mean the '80's trend started with the NY Dolls, because there were feminine looking male performers before then. Little Richard immediately comes to mind.

dancerella said:

I'm working on it...

DecaturStone said:

I say this all the time. I have a LoveSexy era poster of Prince in my office, and sometimes when students come in, they say "he's gay" or "Prince is so gay." I always laugh and tell them that they need to go beyond the surface. I say Prince is so NOT gay, and that the so-called "hard" dudes that they think are so straight are the ones they need to taking a deeper look at. I tell them that if they listen to Prince's lyrics, they would see that he clearly LOVES women. On the other hand, the dudes they listen to seem to have no love for women. They actually display a great deal of animus toward women. They have much more love for their boys than women. The documentary "Beyond Beats and Rhymes" has a really good section about this.

That picture was definately taken during the "Throwin' Down" era. Surely Rick didn't think they would use it on the album. Then again, as high as he was all the time, maybe he did. Hell, Motown probably turned it down because the titties on that bitch were saggy as hell.

bellanoche said:

Agreed I could not have worded this better.

As far as the Mase thing. If you live in Atlanta and know where that happened
YOU KNOW what Mase was there for. PERIOD

TonyVanDam said:

wow that samwell dude is a trip!

bellanoche said:

Exactly. But I remember in a previous thread that even Little Richard was given the idea of wearing make-up from another artist (who's name I don't remember off-hand).

TonyVanDam said:

Billy Wright?

dancerella said:

As was seen in the 80s, a heterosexual male artist has to be quite cute naturally (with large eyes) in order for any androgyny to really work and not look like a silly gimmick. Ne-yo and The Dream are talented, but they could never be androgynous. Neither could Timberlake, Chris Brown, Unique Zayas, or any current male pop/r&b artist that I've seen. Their facial features would not be complemented or enhanced with eyeliner or mascara.

WaterInYourBath said:

U R right, though I still think Rick james could make the list...
but Ne Yo or Chris Brown androgynous??? YUCK!

TonyVanDam said:

What? Did you see Prince on the last Jay Leno show?????

Prince couldn't butch up with a full beard and mustache. Prince is a "Prettyman".

FrenchGuy said:

And Rick James? Well:





He dressed like a woman alright, but it didn't look good to me. He would go on my list of men who SHOULD NOT have been androgynous. The best I've seen Rick James was during his scene in the movie "Life," where he was wearing a 30s gangster-suit with a slick-back hairstyle, lol.
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This guy has always seemed fairly brave in that department, considering his genre

NDRU said:

Good one. Snoop doesn't look feminine, he looks like he is selling chicks on the track.

you just gotta know where to look and you can still find 'em



with hip-hop where it is, you won't see any of the male performers like you did in the 70s-80s mainstream.
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TonyVanDam said:

I really enjoyed that first video!

matthewgrant said:

Ms. Kevin form the legendary House of Aviance. YEEEES. Unfortunately, a VERY out of the closet Black gay male will never become a mainstream artist with songs like "Cunty" Good try.

That's why shit hop needs to die.