Deadlee

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Deadlee (real name Joseph Thomas Lee ) is a hip hop artist from Los Angeles , California .

Live and act

According to Spiegel Online from 2007, he likes to describe himself as a “gay gangster” and with his appearance as a “tattooed, muscle-packed man in his mid-thirties”, he “could also be included in the Cypress Hill crew”.

He released two albums. The music video Good Soldier II was played several times on the MTV channel LOGO .

With his lyrics he takes a stand against homophobia in hip-hop and confronts rappers like Eminem and 50 Cent with their own earlier statements.

Deadlee appeared in the documentary Hip Hop Homos , which aired on LOGO. He was also portrayed in the 2005 documentary Pick Up the Mic . In 2007 Deadlee was the subject of various entertainment news ( Rolling Stone , AllHipHop.com , CNN) In 2007, he was on his HomoRevolution Tour 2007 tour . He appeared on The Tyra Banks Show with Tori Flixx and Foxxjazell .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gay rappers: muscle game with gay gangsters
  2. ↑ AllHipHop.com Gayngsta 'Rapper Deadlee Headlines Homo Hip-Hop Tour, Disses Eminem, DMX, 50 Cent
  3. ↑ Rolling Stone: Gayngsta Rapper Deadlee Launches a "Homorevolution"
  4. ↑ AllHipHop.com
  5. ↑ The Tyra Banks Show - Warner Bros (archive version) ( Memento from February 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Deadlee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Joseph Thomas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hip hop musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century