Jason aka Caushun the Gay Rapper, from Brooklyn; he is also a celebrity hairdresser whose clients have included Jennifer Lopez and Sarah Michelle Gellar. He sees himself as "hip-hop's homosexual Jackie Brown".

"You got Jay-Z talking about girls, girls, girls. Nelly, take your clothes off. They put their sexuality out front. What's the big deal if I put mine up front and come out open? ... I rhyme about everything, I just rhyme from a gay perspective. And it's not like it's a flamboyant gay perspective. It's the next-door neighbor. We saying the same thing. I just might put a little gay terminology in there.

"Black men have endured so much throughout history. Homosexuality is viewed as a weakness. Black men don't want to give America another reason to view us as weak. That's why one of the things I hope to change - gayness being viewed as a weakness."