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Cazwell comes to Portland for a one-night stand
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by Tony le Tigre
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azwell is the kind of modern-day artistic
hybrid who would have been impossible
a decade ago: an openly gay white rapper
from New York City whose name is
becoming known across the country and,
indeed, around the world.
From humble beginnings in Worcester, Mass.,
to a rough start as a hip-hopper in Boston, his hard
work and unique talent are paying off. These days
he hangs out with'■glamorous tranny Amanda
Lepore, hobnobs with the rich and famous, and is
on his way to celebrity status himself with hit
singles like “All Over Your Face” working people
into a lather on dance floors across the country.
Recently Cazwell (his first name is Luke) took
some time out to talk before hopping a flight to
London for a club tour, and revealed there’s more
to the man than lewd lyrics.
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Tony le Tigre: So, how easy is it to get in your
pants, Cazwell?
Cazwell: If you whip out two Ben Franklins it
gets real easy. No, it’s not as easy as you think.
I’m actually pretty particular. 1 don’t like when a
guy is too forward. 1 know because of my public
image people are gonna assume I’m this nympho
maniac, but it depends what circles you travel in.
There are times when I’m uptight. Like, 1 have
friends who go to sex parties, and 1 feel awkward in
those situations. The best way to get me interested
in you is to just be a cool person, you know?
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TLT: Did you make any new year’s resolu
tions for 2007?
C: I’m doing my best to
lay off the hooch. I made
a deal with myself that i(
I lay off drugs and alcohol
for one year I’ll get a mil
lion dollars. When you’re
intoxicated things get
blurry, and you have some
friends who are too dramat
ical, and you can’t keep
things rolling in the right
direction. So that’s a chal
lenge I set for myself, and
I probably won’t make it,
but I’m going to try.
TLT: 1 like what you
said on your MySpace
page about wanting to
make gay people cool
again, and how “Queer
Eye for the Straight Quy is
great, but not all of . us
want to make over your
house.” When did we stop
being cool?
C: Well, we have our
ups and downs, but what
I think is when we fool our
selves into thinking we’ve
got our rights now and everything’s good—that’s
when we get uncool. You know, we’re doing
people’s hair up, there’s Will & Grace on TV, it’s all
good. Well, we should celebrate the freedoms that
we have, but there’s so much more to do, and we’ll
probably never be where we should be in our life
time. One thing I’ve noticed is that you can tell
people’s opinion on gay people from how they treat
women. For instance: I went on The Doghouse in
rhe middle of January, and it’s this really frat boy
morning radio program in NYC, sort of like
Howard Stem. And 1 went in there prepared, ready
to rap, like whatever they want, I’m gonna hit ’em
with it. It ended up being all right, but it was like
“make fun of the gay guy.” And I forget how many
people out there hate gay people, because I’m in my
bubble.
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TLT: Me, too, here in Portland. I see this
divide in the gay community today where some
gay people want to prove, “We’re just like
straight people!” And I’m thinking, “No, we’re
not; queemess is this whole other sensibility, and
we should celebrate and protect our otherness
instead of trying to make ourselves acceptable and
normal.” Do you feel me on that?
C: Yeah, and that brings me to gay marriage.
It’s like, yes, we should be able to marry who we love,
but at the same time, 1 don’t want to be straight, you
know? 1 started out in the hip-hop scene in Boston,
and I never got anywhere, because all the people at
my shows were straight, and 1 was out,-and no
matter how talented 1 am, straight guys just don’t
Cazwell considers glamorous tranny Amanda Lepore a friend first
and a collaborator second.