Deep Dickollective
| Deep Dickollective | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Stanford University, California, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop, Homo hop |
| Years active | 2000–2008 |
| Labels | Sugartruck Recordings, Agitprop! Records |
| Website | www.DeepDicKollective.com |
| Past members |
Juba Kalamka (2000-2008) Tim'm T. West (2000-2008) Phillip Atiba Goff(2000-2001) Ralowe Trinitrotoluene Ampu (2000-2003) Doug E. (2001) Dazie' R. Grego (2001) Jerry 'JbRAP' Brown (2002-2008) Marcus René Van (2002-2008) Leslie "Buttaflysoul" Taylor (2004-2008) Soulnubian(2003-2006) Solas B. Lalgee (2005-2008) Baraka Noel (2005-2008) |
Deep Dickollective (D/DC) was a black and queer hiphop group based in Oakland, California that were active in the homo hop scene of openly queer/LGBT artists during the 2000s. They were regular performers at the PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival curated by group co-founder Juba Kalamka.
Deep Dickollective 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 following a 1999 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. Though Goff, Kalamka, and West had performed solo work at several readings in the previous months, The group's first performance as Deep Dickollective was May 12, 2000 as a part of curator William Jones' Black Gay Male Radical Performances series at the legendary Black Dot Cafe's original location at 2330 International Blvd. Titled "With The Key: SISSSIES", the show's naming served as an overt recontextualization of popular early 1990s Afrocentrist/Black Nationalist rap group X-Clan's homophobic tag line.
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 guitarist/bassist Dick Deluxe Egner (formerly of Club Foot Orchestra) 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.
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