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Deep Dickollective
12+ albums
Hip-HoprapqueerhiphopNeo Soul
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Deep Dickollective (or D/DC) is a black queer "homohop" group based in Oakland, California. It was formed in early 2000 by Juba Kalamka, Tim'm T. West and Phillip Atiba Goff. The three began working together after Kalamka and West met at a screening of black gay filmmaker and scholar Marlon Riggs' film Tongues Untied. Kalamka and West later met Goff on the campus of Stanford University, where West and Goff were enrolled in PhD programs. Kalamka and West had been performing for years as MCs but had few opportunities to work as out queer artists until encountering each other and Goff shortly thereafter. Kalamka had begun recording an experimental spoken word project called Pre/tensions with San Francisco blues and avantgarde jazz whiz Dick "Deluxe" Egner and with groundbreaking queer hip hop group Rainbow Flava, but both were interested in the possibility of creating a project that would push buttons around race, queerness and masculinity in hip hop all at once. Frustrated with the resistance they had faced from an allegedly progressive "conscious" spoken word scene, the three began jamming together in private on Stanford's campus and came up with the skeletons of about 20 songs, 13 of which would become their debut recording BourgieBohoPostPomoAfroHomo. In a moment of anger while discussing their difficulty with the local scene (West had been performing at readings and with bands since his arrival in 1998, but lost all of his bookings once it the scene became aware that he w
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On Some Other
BourgieBohoPostPomoAfroHomo
The Famous Outlaw League Of Proto-Negroes
Them Niggas Done Went And Said...
Live at Wildseed and Mo'
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Azadi
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Azadi! - CD1 - A Benefit Compilation For Rawa
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Azadi!
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With The Key (Sissies):The Very Best of Deep Dickollective
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Azadi! - A Benefit Compilation For Rawa
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The Famous Outlaw League Of Proto-Negroes (Explicit)
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Them N****s Done Went and Said...