Male fans chant 'suck his d**'k at female star
Grace Carroll

15:43 9th May 2013

A crowd of male Danny Brown fans at the rapper's New York show heckled Kitty Pryde when she was on stage, telling her to "suck his d**k."

Brown came under fire recently when a girl attempted to perform oral sex on the rapper during one of his concerts. Although Danny initially seemed unperturbed by the act, friend and support act Kitty Pryde later published a blog saying that it had been sexual assault and he had not been comfortable with it. Danny himself did not speak out about the situation.

It seems some fans didn't appreciate Kitty's defence of Danny, however, as a group of male Danny Brown fans heckled her while she was on stage at Danny's New York gig, at his support act.

Devon Maloney, who attended the show, wrote in the Village Voice: "A throng of over-stimulated, over-privileged white boys in the crowd last night kicked up and maintained a chant of "SUCK HIS D**K, SUCK HIS D**K" at the 20-year-old rapper/opener while she performed."

She went on to wonder why Danny didn't speak out about the issue during his set, particularly after Kitty had been so quick to jump to his defence after the oral sex incident. 

"On the one hand, Kitty is a big girl who ought to be able to carry her own weight on a tour like this; it's part of the deal," Devon continued. 

"On the other, it would be cool, for once, to watch a rapper as currently beloved as Danny Brown come out and straight-up eviscerate those crowd members who tried to make his "baby girl Kitty" (his words) feel small and sh*tty and unsafe after she penned 1,500 words (and over the past year, likely thousands more) ripping into his critics."


Danny Brown has been at the centre of controversy recently

Danny later tweeted Devon, saying, "that shit made me sad to ... Cause obviously u popping off at the mouth about shit u don't know about ..."

Kitty also blogged about the incident saying that Danny did not need to defend her. She wrote, "it happens it’s a thing,  and my own brothers have chanted much worse things at me in public.

"It’s like i am the one that is cute on this stage and after this im gonna go hang out with the guy you people paid so much money to “meet & greet” and he doesnt think ur cool for being mean to me so have a lovely evening enjoy the show and good luck trying to sneak a 40 oz back into your house w/o your mom noticing

"But i can yell at dumb swagboys on my own i dont need a big strong black man to do it for me."

From Kitty Pryde to Jean Grae: hip-hop stars with comic book names

  • Kitty Pryde: The (possibly) teenage rapper was originally named after Kitty Pryde the mutant, although she dropped the 'Pryde' part of her name later on. She told Buzzine, "It's not like I had to drop it for legal reasons, yet I just didn't want to have to deal with it anymore, and the confusion. And also, X-Men fans are strangely rabid, so they're like, if they don't like my music, they are pissed off that I'm taking that name: They don't like it at all."

  • MF DOOM: Daniel Dumile - aka MF DOOM - is an underground hip hop artist. He's also a massive comic book fan, and named himself after Fantastic Four supervillain Dr Doom, even wearing a mask similar to Doom's own and never being photographed without it.

  • Skott Summerz: We're not sure if UK record producer, engineer and songwriter Skott Summerz' name is a conscious nod to X-Men's Scott Summers, but it was too good to pass up. Still, we prefer the original spelling overall.

  • Jean Grae: Scott Summers' mutant girlfriend takes hip-hop form with Jean Grae. Grae told Pitchfork, "I had an older brother who was six years older. We had a comic-book store six blocks away. So we went all the time. I wasn't into My Little Pony. We'd play X-Men."

  • DJ Green Lantern: The cool part about the Green Lantern is that anyone at all can be one, as long as they've found the power ring. DJ Green Lantern might not be part of the Green Lantern Corps, but he's certainly named after one.

  • Birdman: In a rare case of the rapper being possibly more famous than his alter-ego (at least according to Google search results), Birdman shares his name with three fictional Marvel Comics characters, as well as a cartoon. Somehow, we don't think he's named after any of them, even if they do look alike.

  • Johnny Blaze: Okay, so maybe Ghost Rider is more associated with Nicholas Cage now but Johnny Blaze was originally a comic book character - and now he's also one of Method Man's alteregos. Method Man also made his own comic book, titled - you've guessed it - 'Method Man'.

  • Tony Starks: Ghostface Killah is another big fan of comic books, and has used various versions of Tony Stark's name as an alias. Going by Tony Starks or Ironman, Ghostface also released a 1996 album titled Ironman - and appeared in a deleted scene on the DVD of the first Iron Man movie.

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