Who Writes This Stuff?

There’s a new sensation sweeping the country that has rap fans cheering – and some parents groups in outrage.

Faggot Bruce, touted as the first homosexual hardcore gangster rapper, is at the top of many kids’ lists this Christmas season with hits like “Turd Tickler” and “Mash That Dinner” – hits that many parents say are too racy for kids to listen to.

“I can’t believe they’re into this,” says Charlene Hildeburger of Price Hill. “When we were kids it was ‘I wanna hold your hand’, now they’re singing about gay butt sex. I can’t believe it!” Hildeburger, a school teacher and mother of three, first heard about Faggot Bruce on the playground. “The kids are just walking around repeating this stuff, and I’m not sure they really understand what they’re saying.”

For the uninitiated, some of Faggot Bruce’s music can be heard here. Warning – Faggot Bruce isn’t safe for work. He often references racism and prison rape as well as consensual homosexual acts in his lyrics, lyrics like:

It’s big brucie from the blacktop

used to love pussy but now I’m into bangkok

I’m the angel of dick and you’re a sinner

spread that ass I’ma mash that dinner

verse two coming through with a thickness

fuck females I’m all about the dickness

Despite the adult content, Bruce’s music has proven especially popular with youngsters. “Bruce is about the way of the world,” says Dontez Evans, 11, of the west end. “Before I heard Bruce I was bein’ about the bitches and then I heard Bruce and I’s like damn doin’ gay shit is real hard. It is what it is.”

Hildeburger was so upset when she heard Bruce’s lyrics and his effect on impressionable kids that she formed a parents group. Families Against Prurience claims that Faggot Bruce turns kids into racist homosexuals. “This guy is out there singing about these things and kids are hearing it and then they think it’s cool to do this stuff.”

We asked Cody Phelps, 10, a fourth grader from Indian Hill, about Faggot Bruce. “At recess you go out with your crew and lay some tracks down and pound some man ass. Sometimes I suck the dick, but usually I’m up in those cheeks balls deep cause I’m a real hard nigga and I’ll shank you.”

Perhaps more disturbing is the noticeable large scale effect. “The boys don’t talk to us anymore,” says Laquisha Johnson, 14, a junior high student, “they just hang out behind the dumpster doing gay shit. It messed up.”

“Straight kids be trippin,” says Evans. “There ain’t no straight guys here no more. Anybody can be straight. That don’t prove nothing.”

“Prison rape is a part of life, but what bothers us is that he uses the n word so much,” said Rev. James Howlett III of the west end when we asked him about Bruce’s impact on the community. ” Does he have to use that word? We’re not even sure he’s black.”

Howlett touches on a sensitive subject among Bruce’s fans – the reclusive nature of the artist himself. Faggot Bruce does not do public appearances. There are no pictures of him available and he doesn’t do interviews. No one knows what he looks like or if he’s even a real person. We certainly weren’t able to secure an interview.

White, black, real or imaginary, parents beware. Faggot Bruce is a revolutionary force in today’s youth culture – and he doesn’t appear to be going anywhere soon.