[2] An edited version aired nationally in the United States on the Logo cable television channel.

As a result, the attendant conversations in LGBT and straight mainstream media around the subject tend to gravitate toward the speculative (Queen Pen's 1998 single "Your Girlfriend")[5] and the apocryphal (the brief career of self-proclaimed "gay rapper" Caushun, who was the subject of a flurry of mainstream press from 2001 to 2003, yet failed to release an album or single through his reported record deal with Kimora Lee Simmons' Baby Phat imprint).

[6] Homohop is a growing subgenre of aggressive pro-gay lyrics directly confronting the perceived homophobia of mainstream rap.

It is a significant underground gay hip hop movement, spearheaded by many of the artists profiled in Pick Up the Mic.

All of the artists featured in Pick Up the Mic have released multiple independent recordings and have toured the United States and internationally over the past several years.