We’re unrepentant fans of local rapper Kevin Herron, aka esQuire, so we were geeked when he recently reached out to share a new track with us. In the cheekily titled “Confederate Fag,” esQuire tries to cram pretty much every Southern cliché into his … erm, sorry.
Actually, Herron says he recorded the track almost two years ago. “I’ve just been sitting on it for a while,” he tells us. “It seemed like the time to do something with it …”
Herron says the spark of inspiration came when someone mislead him speak. “I was saying something about a Confederate flag and he thought I said ‘Confederate fag!’ he says. “I thought it would made a great song title.”
He adds, “I spend a lot of time down South and I always found it interesting how people think about it.”
The track is available for purchase on iTunes, or to stream below:
This article appears in Jul 15-21, 2015.
