Somehow Googling “philosophical rhymes over hard core beats” led me to this new Newsweek article about Hiding in Hip Hop.

Though I only scanned the article, and a CTRL + F find didn’t turn up “philosophical rhymes over hard core beats” in the piece, maybe it’s there and I missed it.

But thinking of a handful of “philosophical rhymes over hard core beats” spat by some socially conscious rappers, this discussion of who might be whom is just gonna get more and more interesting…

Terrance Dean is starting his publicity tour for Hiding in Hip Hop, and he came to the Wendy Williams show first.

I grew more and more empathetic towards Terrance Dean as he talked about suffering the loss of his mother, who was a prostitute and a heroin addict who contracted HIV, had his baby brother — who was born with HIV — and both of them — along with another brother of Terrance’s — died of AIDS.

Listen to Terrance Dean on the Wendy Wiliams show

Down Low Parties…Turn-Out Parties…Taco Card Parties?

Terrance talks about being invited to his first “turn out” or did they say “taco card?” –definitely down-low party in Los Angeles. It wasn’t The Swagger Club, they say — whatever that is.

The Hollywood DL

But it was fascinating to know that the Hollywood DL is on another level from the regular DL. With top Hollywood stars, it sounds like a modern-day Caligula scene with lots of fine liquor.


Sheena, Lola, Asia…

These are some of the female names bandied about, disguised into character personas that leave us guessing and so shocked as to who they might be.

R & B stars, a big Hollywood movie star whom Wendy said could buy her radio station.

Oh my…

Hiding in Hip Hop’s Preston - Who is the masked basketball player?

Along with Terrance Dean’s Hiding in Hip Hop book excerpts sure to spread like wildfire around the world wide web, are also sure to come questions of who the infamous Preston is…

Unlike the video vixen’s confessional that actually shockingly named names — How did that girl avoid lawsuits? Well, I guess those confessions were true — Terrance Dean’s Hiding in Hip Hop will be an elusive game of fictional tag that leaves us wondering who he writing about.

Blog fodder for days, yes, but what of the people who are outed?

Are any of these Hiding in Hip Hop guys married?

Maybe it’s for the best if they are, to protect the women in their lives — and prompt them to get tested, as well all should.

And in the mean time, it is no fun to live a lie.

So if it’s gone on too long, maybe that’s what meant to be.

But there’s plenty of room for grace. So no jumping to Hiding in Hip Hop conclusions…

Hiding in Hip Hop Author Terrance Dean Blog, MySpace and More…

I first wrote about Hiding in Hip Hop author Terrance Dean a good while ago. And now that his Hiding in Hip Hop blook is blowing up, I couldn’t help but ask myself once again: Who is Terrance Dean?

His Hiding in Hip Hop MySpace page is flashing that “Online Now!” green and orange button, and I’ve clicked send a message, or leave a comment and hesistated?

What do I really want to ask Terrance Dean?

Well, the techie in me wants to tell him to correct the “www.myspace.com/hidinginhiphop.com” listed at the bottom of his most recent blog post over on SOHH — and to take the last .com off of there.

What do I really want to say to Terrance Dean, author of Hiding in Hip Hop?

No knee-jerk hostility, no hateful comments that I’m sure will pop off by the bucketload over on Terrance Dean’s blog, prayerfully outweighed by more people praying for a Donnie McClurkin-type transformation and humbling for The Kingdom.

I guess more than that I can only pour out the love in my heart obviously place there by Christ for him.

And lead him on to a little confession of my own…

Hiding in Hip Hop Preston and Clever Men — Who are they?

Okay, we’ve got the first free excerpt online of Hiding in Hip Hop that I’ve found from Terrance Dean.

And he starts off with a (okay, I know I could say ‘bang’ but that’s too easy) cheezy escapade with some dude named Preston - basketball player, I guess — in an island hotel room.

In Hiding in Hip Hop, it sounds like Clever is his friend and Preston was an unknown hook up.

The question is, will Dean just write about crazy sexcapades like I once did in a crazy novel that God gave me a dream in which Satan smiled at me — scaring me so much I got rid of it — or will Dean tell the raw and honest and hurtful truth about illicit sex like Six Feet Under did with their gay character?

…is out, and I’ve read an excerpt or two.

More lust than contriteness, I’d rather not get paid to promote it — and sleep alright tonight in Christ.