Author Terrance Dean talks about homosexuality in HIP-HOP!!

Homosexuality and Hip-Hop!? It seems the two 'H' words couldn't be farther from each other.  In Hip-Hop, anything "GAY" is lampooned, ridiculed, and obliterated.  The worse thing to say to someone in a rap is 'you are gay'.  Although Hip-Hop seems to go against all things 'GAY', homosexuality maybe closer to hip-hop than many like to think.  Author Terrance Dean explored how the world of hip-hop and homosexuality maybe more intertwined than many like to think.  The author sat down with Bossip.com to discuss his new novel 'Mogul', and he also touched on his past novel, 'Hiding in Hip-Hop'.



 Hiding in Hip Hop: Confessions of a Down Low Brother in the Entertainment Industry by Terrance Dean is an intimate account of the author's experience as an undercover brother. As a child, Dean was forced to cope with issues surrounding drugs, abandonment, AIDS, and molestation. As an adult, those issues still plagued him, but he was able to add sexuality to his list of problems. His fulfillment in having sex with other men would not have been so huge had he not been a part of the entertainment business. But because he was flooded with images of masculinity and saw how the rich and famous treated those who were openly gay, he contrived an artificial existence as a heterosexual man ultimately hiding in Hip Hop.


Mogul, colorfully illustrates the story of Aaron “Big A.T.” Tremble, who falls for the most popular boy on high high school basketball team, George. At the end of high school, George is shipped off to California to play college ball, leaving Big A.T. heartbroken. He turns to music and finds himself at the center of one of the most successful hip-hop labels in the industry.



WILL YOU BE READING THIS NEW NOVEL???