Stay in your lane, shawty: Saucy Santana

Louder Than A Riot

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Music History, Music, Society & Culture, Music Interviews, True Crime

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Saucy Santana is part of a new wave of queer artists pushing back against stale standards in hip-hop. Bolstered by the reach of short sound bites on TikTok, the "Material Girl" rapper is not shy about rocking a beat face, trimmed beard, acrylic nails and booty shorts that have become his calling card. But in an industry that values marketability and reinforces masculinity to a toxic level, how can femme-presenting gay men sidestep from being considered viral jokes to become undeniable stars?

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0:00.0	But one in before we began, this podcast is explicit in every way.
0:06.0	And this episode contains homophobic language and references to suicide.
0:11.0	Tallahassee in Paris is small.
0:13.0	So when somebody doing something with glam and it actually works and it's good quality,
0:18.0	you won't hear about it. And I do hair. So you know, hair and makeup go hand in hand.
0:22.0	Mitch Copeland is a hair stylist out of Tallahassee, Florida.
0:25.0	He's known as the hair physician.
0:27.0	And back in 2017, he started to hear about somebody else on the glam scene.
0:32.0	So I used to always be telling people, like, oh, who did your makeup makeup?
0:35.0	You know, it's like, oh, I'm sent down on the beat, sent down on the beat.
0:37.0	I'm just like, who is that?
0:38.0	What had you heard about it at that point?
0:40.0	That you can go to a sent down a booty, you can get your makeup done.
0:43.0	You can get your lashes.
0:44.0	You had like the real four, like the T ones, like the real Q ones.
0:47.0	You know, bitch, look at you. And be like, oh, who did your means?
0:50.0	I'll go ahead and know these tropes.
0:51.0	Oh, for real? Yeah.
0:52.0	So that's something he was known for.
0:55.0	Okay, okay.
0:56.0	You can get strips and you can get out for the come out of different pitch.
0:59.0	One stop shot.
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