Ballroom icon, house music legend, and the voice behind "Cunty", Kevin Aviance sits down with Yo Aunteas!
Kevin just dropped Hippopotamus (Deluxe) and opens up about everything: how Beyoncé sampled "Cunty" on Renaissance's "Pure/Honey" (and how he found out), what it's still like to be "cunty" at 58, laying the groundwork for a generation of Black queer artists, and why ballroom culture IS Black culture, period.
We go track-by-track through Hippopotamus — including "Dolls," his protest record for Black trans women, the gospel cut "What a Friend," and "Bloodlines," written from a conversation with the late Father Hector Xtravaganza. Plus: his new era as a DJ, the Fever NYC party scene, growing up in Richmond and coming up in DC nightlife, a tribute to Dolly Parton, and a first look at what's coming for Beyoncé's B'Day 20th anniversary.
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TEASTAMPS:
00:00 – Intro
01:11 – Kevin Aviance: Hippopotamus Deluxe
06:44 – C*nty sampled on Beyoncé's Renaissance
15:29 – C*nty at 58
21:14 – Kevin's DJ era
24:55 – DC nightlife
33:26 – "Ballroom is Black culture, period"
35:56 – Hippopotamus Tracks
43:06 – Club Hippopotamus remix album
51:51 – RIP Dolly Parton
55:39 – Beyoncé's B'Day 20th anniversary
1:13:00 – Onya & Benediction