DDC Changes Hip Hop Forever

In 1999 Marlon Riggs held a screening for his film “Tongues United,” which deserves its own video. There Juba Kalamka, and Tim’m T. West met. They would later meet Phillip Atiba Goff on campus at Stanford University. They started making music together as Deep Dickollective; as in Deep Dick Collective. There’s been a fair number of members coming and going over the years. But they’re the key members.

DDC has played a role in making a lot of people uncomfortable and it’s for the best. They’re just as radical as X-Clan but because they’re gay, they got a lot of pushback from within and outside of the hip hop community. Especially at open mic events during the early days. Those rejections fueled a lot of the music for their first album BourgieBohoPostpomoAfroHomo.  

They’ve been called pioneers of homo hop, but I don’t think that’s fair. Calling something homo hop implies it’s a different genre. In reality, they were just gay and rapping. Each of the members has gone on to do great things beyond hip hop. But it all started with DDC. It’s not that deep.