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Age of Consent : Old School on the Down Low
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Alternative polysexual old school hip-hop gay rap. Before Grandmaster Flash's "The Message," there was Age of Consent's "Fight Back."
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap: Alternative Hip Hop
Release Date: 2004
Old School on the Down Low © Copyright-Age of Consent
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Fight Back 3:08 Not Available
Missionary Position 3:29 Not Available
History Rap 3:23 Not Available
Diddle Rap 2:42 Not Available
Dickie's Dead 2:31 Not Available
Schizo Rap 2:54 Not Available
Performance Pressure 2:19 Not Available
God Says 2:52 Not Available
Twist and Shout 4:53 Not Available
Age of Consent 5:09 Not Available
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Album Notes

Before Grandmaster Flash's "The Message," there was Age of Consent's "Fight Back." Music brought Age of Consent co-founders John Callahan and David Hughes together in early 1981. Callahan, recently arrived from the East Coast - a disco and rap devotee - took issue with Hughes's dismissive criticism of disco. Callahan stuck around after the talk to exchange ideas about the music scene and to learn more about Hughes's gay punk and performance perspective. A friendship developed. Later that spring, when Hughes was producing an experimental "Sound and Vision" series at a downtown gallery, Callahan suggested a rap - a political gay rap.At the time, rap music was new enough to be considered experimental and so the two wrote "Fight Back," an anti-gay-bashing rap, which was the show-stopper at one of the series' performances. The reaction at "Sound and Vision" inspired the duo to perform - for the first time under the moniker of Age of Consent - that summer at L.A.'s first open-mike "ra

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