No frontin'
Rapper Katastrophe is comfortable with the kind of man (trans) he is and the kind of hip-hop (legit) he brings to the stage

BY Denise Benson   June 30, 2010 21:06

http://www.eyeweekly.com/city/pride%20guide%202010/article/96188--no-frontin

"I feel that often, in really lyric-based music, people end up bringing themselves up by putting others down," says San Fran wordsmith and producer Rocco Kayiatos a.k.a. Katastrophe.
"In general, I can't really relate to artists who write in that way. I like people who make themselves a bit more vulnerable."

As a queer transsexual rapper and self-professed hippie, Kayiatos knows of making himself vulnerable. He grew up on a steady music diet of hip-hop acts like A Tribe Called Quest and the Definitive Jux camp, and was equally influenced by spoken-word artists including Sonja Sohn.