One the boldest hip-hop documentaries, Pick Up the Mic, has been released on DVD and you can get it from Amazon, Best Buy, or TLA Video. It is indeed one for the collection especially since many artists gained a wider audience through the queer-conscious hip-hop film. It’s the music that should be played at chanted at these Queer LiberAction protests in Dallas if they really wanted to get radical music involved.
Check out my phone interview with the film’s director, Alex Hinton, shortly before the film debuted at the 7th OUT TAKES Dallas Festival. Alex talks about the disconnect he experienced in the gay community’s entertainment scene that led him to discover gay hip-hop. http://www.mandrakesocietyradio.com/2006/10/26/a-talk-with-alex-hinton/
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