Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry—from Music to Hollywood

Terrance Dean

May 2008 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

“If you’re a fan of the hit show Empire and its characters Cookie, Lucious, Hakeem, Jamal, and Andre, then you have to check out Terrance Dean’s provocative memoir Hiding in Hip Hop. Dean writes a compelling story about black gay men in Hip Hop and Hollywood, and what it takes for them to make it the entertainment industry.” – JL King, New York Times bestselling author of On The Down Low

Celebrated blogger and former MTV insider Terrance Dean reveals a hidden side of Hollywood and hip hop in this explosive and illuminating memoir.

Terrance Dean worked his way up for more than ten years in the entertainment industry from intern to executive and has lived the life of glitz and bling along with Hollywood and Hip Hop’s most glamorous heavy hitters. As a gay man immersed within the world of the famous and the fabulous, Dean knows well the industry’s secrets and the façade that is kept, that for men, promotes machismo and heteronormative behavior.

Most of what Dean unveils in this book is fascinating and salacious, but all of it is true. He also shares his own secrets, and an account of the pain of his mother’s addiction, and the poverty and molestation he experienced as a child.

Hiding in Hip Hop is not a traditional tell-all. It’s personal. It’s poignant. It’s a provocative and honest look at stardom and sexuality.

Ratings and reviews

I LOOOOVED this book!! I mean yeah it could drag just a little bit, ESPECIALLY in the beginning but most page turniers i've found over the years can start of that way. THIS was one of those books! Once you got good and buckled in, whoo, you better had been ready to ride. THIS was definitley a pager AND head turner. It lead you up to the highest of highs through successes and triumphs in his personal and professional life while dragging you and your face in, through, and sometimes under the mud. This story touched my heart at times at the struggles UNNECESSARILY PLACED on people of different lifestyles, etc but like I said, this story was and is a real page turner. I just wish it was as messy boots as it is juicy! Some names would've done more than sufficed for me. I plan on keeping this in my downloads cause this is a definite read again for me.

He's constantly repeating how uncomfortable it is to be gay. He doesn't talk about anything else. Not worth the time. At All

this is not nothin new everybody knows that being gay is becommin more and more relevent get over it

About the author

Speaker, educator, author, and hip hop head Terrance Dean is the author of the explosive and provocative memoir, Hiding In Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry from Music to Hollywood. Dean is also the author of Mogul: A Novel, Straight from Your Gay Best Friend, and coauthor of Visible Lives. He has worked in the entertainment industry for over ten years with heavy hitters such as Spike Lee, Rob Reiner, Keenan Ivory Wayans, and Anjelica Houston, and with notable television and film production companies such as MTV Networks, B.E.T., Savoy Television, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Sony Pictures. He now teaches Black Studies and Religion at Denison University.