JULIE POTTER
More press is available upon request.
- Rachel Swan, "Bitches Brew" 9/19/07
- Ernest Hardy, "Queer Hip Hop" Performer Review 6/19/07
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More press is available upon request. |
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| East Bay Express | ||||||
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| In case her stage name doesn't give it away, "homohop" rapper Julie Fucking Potter is one of the saltier characters to rise from a new San Francisco beat generation. In fact, she's cut from the same cloth as poet Bucky Sinister, whose diatribes against Café Gratitude have become legendary. Recently, Potter’s own rants range from mildly cranky - in "Server Homies" she bitches about the stress of waiting tables in a mid-level Bay Area restaurant - to disarmingly lewd. In "Straight Bitches," she bitches about, well, bitches, specifically of the non-gay variety. Recently, Potter’s managed to build a cult following of her own, thanks to her knack for aping the gender politics of mainstream rappers. No joke. On "Exhos," easily the best track posted on Potter’s MySpace page, the emcee pairs her nyah-nyah lyrics with a chunky electro beat, featuring a horn sample lifted from De la Soul's "Potholes in My Lawn." She raps about the bitches who rip your heart out of your chest and come back later to reclaim it: Let's see, you lied and you cheated and you did me wrong/Now get your shit while I hit this bong. Not since Ice Cube's lyric A bitch is a bitch is a bitch has such critical acumen been evidenced in hip-hop. | ||||||
- Rachel Swan, "Bitches Brew" 9/19/07 |
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| The Advocate | ||||||
| ...“There is a place for intelligent, loving, conscious hip-hop from a group of highly talented people,” says San Francisco’s 29-year-old Julie Fucking Potter. “Minorities speaking their truth and putting it in your face is exactly how hip-hop started.” …..Next up is Potter, whose material lays bare her Bay Area politics. “If I must claim a culture,” says Potter after the show, “I claim San Francisco culture. I will boast about this city with my dying breath. There is something we have figured out here: Coexist, be who you are, follow your dreams, give generously, and love with every part of yourself.” Her material shows the influence of Missy Elliott in ribald songs about psycho ex-girlfriends, smoking weed, and the drudgery of working as a server in Bakersfield, Calif. If her flow is a tad generic, her eye for storytelling detail is sharp, and she attacks each track with gusto. The highlight of Potter’s set occurs when her wife, Caroline, a ringer for a shaved Sinead O’Connor, takes the stage with a nimble violin accompaniment. Though Potter flaunts her politics, she makes it clear she doesn’t want her sexual orientation to define her as an artist. Like many homo-hop artists, she teeters across the tightrope of being down with and down for fellow LBGT folks and not wanting to be boxed in due to that allegiance. “Yes, I’m queer,” says Potter. “I care about the health and prosperity of this community…I’m an out, strong lesbian, so I’m going to uphold certain ideals. But I don’t want to be labeled as a quote-unquote gay rapper. I’m a person who raps who is also gay.” | ||||||
- Ernest Hardy, "Queer Hip Hop" Performer Review 6/19/07 |
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