Fusion’s “F-Comedy” group have cooked up an ingenious social experiment that puts to test the myth that black men are more homophobic than other people. Comedian Ben Bizuneh investigates the issue in the most unique — and insidious — way imaginable: he casts a handful of straight men in a rap video, not mentioning that it’s a gay rap video that will culminate in a big sloppy kiss.
Choosing the stage name Boss Quoss, Bizuneh recorded a sleazy song and had a kicky wig made, assembling 11,000 followers on a fake Twitter profile before putting out an all-call for extras on Craigslist.
About twelve men show up in total, all of whom are eager to star in a rap video.
The men remove their shirts and dance around confidently — until the moment of truth, when “Boss Quoss” starts passionately making out with another guy.
Several of the men leave on the spot, shouting “That shit ain’t gonna fly in the industry!” and “You should have told us that at first!”
But others stay with the production.
“How unprofessional,” says one man.
“I support Boss Quoss,” says another. “He has good music. Love the guy, good guy.”
And a third: “First openly gay rapper — do your thing, homie.”
“There were a lot of guys on the set who were super-accepting of Boss Quoss,” Ben Bizuneh says, “which means that maybe there’s more acceptance of homosexuality in the black community than I originally thought.”
Watch what he finds out below.
Alex Banx
Earth has no fury like the turned-on closet-case.
Brian
Isn’t it sad to see how bad music has become in the United States?????
James Roach
Why kissing? Fully dressed? They don’t typically kiss hos in straight rap videos. I’m sick of people overreacting to kissing without tongue or holding hands in these “what would you do?” things. Wait until I get to third base before you start being offended.
dave lopes
They are right.
They should have been informed.
Xzamilio
Dark chocolate with the cap though… I’m next. Kiss me with your everything!!!
Greg Garavani
@dave lopes: They should have been reminded of the contents that are present in the video to see if these extras ‘support’ the ideas the artist does. However, I believe this was just a social experiment to see how some men would react to seeing gay rapper as there aren’t many out there, that we know of.
Xzamilio
But, no… this wasn’t a social experiment. This was for clicks. You wanna see if the black community is more homophobic, maybe use a better sample than tricking a bunch of randoms to be in a video under false pretenses. In any case, that video was lame as fuck.
adrianjurado310
i wish they could change. I wish they could accept you for what you are and I also wish the worst possible penalty of death upon who ever denies you.
Earlin Witron
Lol stroke it…
Kieran
They behaved much better than a lot of gays would if they were fooled into appearing in a pro-Trump rap video.
Kangol
If you watch the whole video, it’s clear that a number of the guys HAD NO PROBLEM WITH THE FACT THAT THE HIPHOP ARTIST MIGHT BE GAY OR BI OR DL. No problem. It actually was refreshing to see this. And the guys who left–other than the idiot spewing the homophobic is–basically say, we don’t have an issue with gay people, but we should have been told. To me this video is far more positive than it may appear at first.
SonOfKings
It is interesting though that MANY rap videos features large groups of shirtless, Black young men dancing around, shaking their dreads, and hanging all over each other. It always seems like it’s one slip away from a full out sausage party.