Goin' Deep

The title of homo-hop act Deep Dickollectives fourth release, On Some Other, has manifold meanings. On some other is an African-American colloquial for odd, next-wave, or unsure, says member Juba Kalamka (a.k.a. Pointfivefag), who produced most of the albums highbrow tracks. It was also a tongue-in-cheek reference to the idea that queer hip-hop artists were reinventing the wheel by telling their stories. This predilection for the vernacular often thrusts the band into polemical terrain. They wont hesitate to use f****t in their music, including on the facetious Butchqueen, which cribs a humorous face-off from the 1976 film Car Wash. We say fag and f****t, and its way more startling because of the placement of the samples, Kalamka says. I tend to freely use pejorative terms for and about groups to which I belong. Sometimes fag and nigga are comfortablecomforting, even.