House of Ladosha is a New York City-based artistic collective and

LGBT ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term ...

rap duo including Antonio Blair ("Dosha Devastation aka La Fem LaDosha") and Adam Radakovich ("Cunty Crawford"). Other members include Neon Christina Ladosha (Christopher Udemezue), Magatha Ladosha (Michael Magnan), YSL Ladosha (Yan Sze Li), General Rage Ladosha (Riley Hooker), and Juliana Huxtable. Many of the members met as freshmen at Parsons School of Design. The group was founded in 2007. They have opened for

Azealia Banks Azealia Amanda Banks ( ; born May 31, 1991) is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, she began releasing music through Myspace in 2008 before being signed to XL Recordings at age 18. In ...

and performed with SSION. The last recorded time that House of Ladosha was in-person for an event was April 10, 2019. Member Juliana Huxtable has been in Berlin while being unable to perform, joining local protests against racism and police brutality. House of Ladosha proposes chic, politically conscious designs for the world that the LGBT community wants. Members of the House of Ladosha work in

video installation Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has ...

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

, drag, and music. On occasion, the members of the House of Ladosha collaborate and work on content together. House of Ladosha create diverse content that makes one think about the content that they are looking at or listening to. Some members are inspiration for other members, while some members help each other with technical problems. Their music has been cited as a "deconstruction of hip-hop masculinity and sexuality" and Blair and Radakovich have referenced the film '' Paris is Burning'' as a major influence on their music as well as clothing.

In popular culture

* Rihanna has been photographed wearing a "Cunt Life" shirt designed by the group. * In 2017, House of Ladosha was included in the

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sch ...

's exhibition "''Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon''." * In 2022, Beyoncé mentioned the collective in her '' BREAK MY SOUL (THE QUEENS Remix)'' featuring Madonna.

References

2007 establishments in New York (state) American artist groups and collectives American hip hop groups LGBT hip hop musicians LGBT in New York (state) Musical groups established in 2007 Musical groups from New York City {{US-hip-hop-bio-stub

In popular culture

See also

References