Hip-hop moguls have a long tradition of multitasking: Over the years, rappers have doubled as actors, restaurateurs, clothing designers, videographers, and snack promoters. But local rapper Imani the Misfit is pretty sure he's charting new territory, as far as side-projects go: He bills himself as “Maryland’s First Bisexual Porn Star Rapper.”

Sure, there are bisexual rappers—Nicki Minaj comes to mind. There are porn star rappers—porn performer Pinky recently entered the rap game. There could even be another bisexual porn star rapper somewhere out there. But Imani thinks he's the first to accomplish the feat in the state of Maryland. "It's basically a title I've never heard anyone claim before," Imani says. "I don't know if I am the world’s first, but I wouldn’t doubt it." And even if he were, he'd still hold on to the local flavor. "I want people to know that I’m from Maryland," he says. "It’s just kind of a rapper’s thing to want to put your area on the map."

Of all of Imani's qualifications, the "rapper" part was the first to emerge. "I was a musician first," Imani says. Growing up in Maryland and then New Jersey, he learned drums, keyboard, and vocals in his church's gospel choir. He started rapping at age 13, but focused on playing keyboards in friends' go-go bands before he starting rapping in earnest in 2004. Last Friday, Imani released his latest single, "My Definition of a Drug," on Amazon and iTunes; he's still at work on his upcoming full-length effort, "The Gold Pill."

After coming out two years ago, Imani started thinking of himself as a "bisexual rapper," he says. "But then I realized that just saying 'bisexual rapper' didn’t fully describe what I do. I also pose for nude erotic art. And I think that the combination of me being a musician and being in porn, it adds to the sensation of it all. It's a unique combination."

The "porn star" part is still in development. Imani began posing nude within the past year—including shoots with local photographer Sean Dibble, for whom he's posed naked and dripping in blood. He's yet to get into the video market. "In Maryland, the porn industry is mostly guys starting up a porn company and looking for girls," says Imani. "I've had a few opportunities to do movies, but every time an opportunity comes up, something stops it from happening," he says. "I'm starting to wonder if there’s like some spiritual force trying to stop me from doing a movie."

There are more immediate forces attempting to stop Imani from speaking out about his sexuality. "Especially in hip-hop, that's something that you don’t say," says Imani. "I’ve heard rumors of people being on the down low, but they're not going to say it because in hip-hop, being bisexual is like the last thing that you want to be," he says.

Imani says he's received death threats over his sexual orientation. He's also received letters from fans thanking him for helping them come to terms with their sexuality.  "There is a fascination that some people have. I’m kind of one-of-a-kind. I say a lot of things that will alienate me, but those things also make me special in other people’s eyes. And a lot of people who are bisexual or gay will support me just [because I'm] open about it."

There's only one demographic he's not representing: "My age is something I don’t really like to talk about," he says.

SEX EUPHEMISM: Sushi

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LITERALLY: According to Wikipedia, sushi is "cooked vinegar rice which is commonly topped with other ingredients, such as fish, or put into rolls."

UNDERLYING MEANING: Urban Dictionary floats several bizarre sexual interpretations of the term, from a threesome, to "rough sex," to "more than 1/4 cup of semen produced in one ejaculation." But the most widespread sexual connotation of "sushi" is surely "vagina."

DEFINING MOMENT: The vaginal sushi reference most recently popped up in Young Money's "Bedrock," in which Drake announces, "I Love your sushi rolls / hotter then Wasabi." The term has not always been employed in a sexual context, however. In 2006's "Killa Cam," Cam'ron uses "sushi" to play off the idea of "sleeping with the fishes": "Ass cap, put em in the river / I'm the sushi king / And I'ma keep ya fresh / Let the fish eat ya flesh."

Perhaps the most overtly sexual use of "sushi" came in Funkdoobiest's 1995 song, "Pussy Ain't Shit" (above). While Young Money's "BedRock" attempts to takes a softer, less explicit approach to the sushi roll, Funkdoobiest's use of "sushi" clearly situates the term in a violent and denigrating sexual context. In a song dedicated to why female genitalia, and by extension, women, "ain't shit," Funkdoobiest drops several lines comparing women to consumable (and therefore disposable) objects. "Pussy ain't shit, give it to me in a frying pan," the track insists, before listing off the menu: "brothas in prison doing time for the coochie / the tuna, the shrimp, the snatch, and the sushi."

Despite Young Money's attempts to convert "sushi" into a sweeter sexual euphemism, the term will perhaps never recover from Funkdoobiest's more explicit interpretation.

SEXUAL EUPHEMISM: "Banana Split."

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DEFINING MOMENT: The recent remix to Robin Thicke's "Sex Therapy," in which Ludacris opines, “Got the banana. Now let me split you."

LITERALLY: A form of ice cream sundae in which scoops of vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate ice cream are served between two halves of a banana, split lengthwise.

UNDERLYING MEANING: Vaginal penetration by a penis. There's nothing sweet about this dessert—on the track, Ludacris' treat-based innuendo comes straight on the heels of a bathroom-based euphemism. "I''ll be your one and only lover and your one and only plumber," Ludacris announces. "When you need me I'll be moving through your pipeline."

HISTORY: Luda's cherry-on-top lyric has been hailed as a "goofy XXX winner." But the rapper wasn't the first to invite comparisons between sex and the sundae; in fact, he appears to have picked up the euphemism from a colleague.

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On the 2001 remix to Mariah Carey's "Loverboy," Ludacris showed up alongside Da Brat, who invited her sex partner to "banana split my Dairy Queen." In a verse that also lends a sexual connotation to Butterfinger candy bars, tangerines, and chickens, Da Brat notes that "bitches be imitating me lately." Indeed they have.

Usher's latest single, "Lil' Freak," is an ode to arranging a ménage à trois. Helping to schedule the girl-on-boy-on-girl arrangement is hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj. In the song, Usher informs Minaj of a prerequisite to sleeping with him: "You go get some girls, bring them to me." She does.

This is not the first track to employ Minaj as threesome facilitator to the stars. In "Girls Kissing Girls," a track off Minaj's mixtape, Minaj aids Gucci Mane's request for participation in the song's titular activity. And in each song, Minaj readily indulges the man's sexual interest. From Minaj's contribution to "Lil' Freak":

Excuse me lil mama, but you could say I'm on duty
I'm lookin' for a cutie with a big old ghetto booty
I really like your kitty cat and if you let me touch her
I know you're not a bluffer, I'll take you to go see Usher

And from Minaj's verse in "Girls Kissing Girls":

Puh puh pop a beer, I'm a need some honey
Chew it like a gummy, stupid juicy oozy runny
Listen Gucci mane I got what u need
Keisha and Alisha and a million packs of weed
Girls everywhere Gucci go and get the camera
White girls too ohh Julie Annie Amber

There's reason to believe that Minaj is just as into this type of action as Gucci Mane and Usher are. Natalie Stein, writing for Bitch Magazine, notes that Minaj's music has consistently reinforced the popular assumption that Minaj is "a rumored lesbian (or bisexual, depending on who you ask)"—but that Minaj herself has stopped short of officially coming out of the closet. In the hip-hop world, Minaj's sexuality has been employed to fulfill the lesbian fantasies of heterosexual guys, but hip-hop hasn't yet give Minaj the space to truly own her identity.

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As Nicki Escuerdo, who wrote on "Lil Freak" for feminist blog Heartless Doll, writes:

Who cares if the girl isn't into hooking up with other girls? If you want to hook up with Usher, he makes it clear that it's a requirement to bring another lady friend around. To prove not all women are opposed to Usher's message, the song features Young Money rapper Nicki Minaj, who conveniently happens to be bisexual (it's not a marketing ploy at all!) . . . Everybody should have the right to get their freak on and have threesomes if they want. But the way the Usher goes about getting two ladies in his bed, by using his celebrity to coerce girls to sleep with him, is sleazy.

But as Escuerdo goes on to note, the songs that situate Minaj's sexuality as a tool for heterosexual men also give Minaj some room to define herself. This is where things start to get interesting. In "Lil Freak," Minaj announces:

If i'm in yo city, I'm signin' them tig 'ol bitties
I'm plotting on how I can take Cassie away from Diddy
The girls want a Minaj yeah they wetter than the rain then
Usher buzz me in, everybody loves Raymond

I never thought I'd be commenting on the transgressive function of the phrase "tig 'ol bitties." Here, Minaj clues her listeners into the fact that her own sexual interests are hardly confined to pleasing Usher. In this verse, she's not looking to hook up with Cassie to help P. Diddy get off; she's looking to remove Diddy from the situation entirely. But after that little detour, Minaj brings the focus of her sexual interests back to Usher. At the moment the songs start to get gay, Minaj brings it back to a more acceptable sexual expression she converts her erotic energy to heterosexual fantasy.

"Girls Kissing Girls," interestingly, contains no such final caveat. Yes, the song gets its wide appeal by accessing the "Girls Gone Wild" version of faux-lesbianism, but it also refuses to end with heterosexual bliss. Though the beginning of the song has Gucci Man getting hot by observing Minaj's sexual relationships with women, in the end he loses the Minaj character to another girl: "Then I lost her number, never seen again / The best brain in the world, do her thing with a girl / But don't call her yo girl, or let her hang with yo girl."

In these songs, Minaj's interest in other women is quarantined to a specific context (the threesome) that allows men to retain control over Minaj's sexuality in public, even while Minaj winkingly suggests that these guys are hardly owning her in the bedroom. As Minaj gains more industry power as an independent artist, here's to hoping she'll be able to take lyrical control of her own sexuality—without the watchful eye of a big-named guy.

Attention, Christian kids: If you like not having sex, not speaking the Lord's name in vain, and not being gay, then you'll love the newest trend in policing typical adolescent behaviors in the name of God. It's called the The Christian Side-Hug, and it's here to help the devout avoid the temptation of full frontal hugging. Don't worry—it's cool, because they made a "rap" song about it.

According to Stuff Christians Like, there's no "exact scripture reference" banning normal hugging. But the Side-Hug does significantly lower the "risk of two crotches touching," which has got to be in the Bible somewhere. Here's how you do it:

Instead of face to face, you go side to side, putting your arm around the person and your hip against their’s. Still having a hard time mastering it? Pretend you’re taking a photo and you’re both looking at the camera together. The side hug, or A frame as it is also called, is safe for the whole family, friendly and above all holy.

The Christian Side-Hug strikes me as almost skeezily chaste—I'd much rather have a brief normal embrace with a stranger than a hip-tap from a person who I know sexualizes even the most mundane forms of human contact. But the Side-Hug itself is slightly less offensive than the medium being used to promote it: An appropriated version of "rap music" performed by a bunch of white youth pastors who think that mixing in some  gang-ish hand signals, tying on a bandana, and securing some fake bling will bring the youth to God.

The Christian Side-Hug rap comes courtesy of the Encounter Generation Conference, an annual Christian youth gathering which hopes to "bring the power, authenticity, and relevance of Jesus Christ to their culture." I'm afraid that this potent combination of absurd chastity and mock hip-hop will be more likely to bring the power of a school-yard beat-down to these kids' faces.

It's hard out there for a rap star trying to come out with the next big sexual euphemism. Armed only with weather patterns ("make it rain"), child-friendly sweets ("lick it like a lollipop") and whimsy ("superman that ho"), today's hip-hop stars struggle to coin a sex term as eternal as LL Cool J's ultimate rap sex euphemism: "doin' it." These are their stories.

RAP SEXUAL EUPHEMISM: "Wipe me down"

DEFINING MOMENT: Lil' Boosie’s “Wipe Me Down"

UNDERLYING MEANING: There's no true consensus on what the fuck "wipe me down" actually means. But in the tradition of Lil' Wayne's "Walk It Off," Boosie's "Wipe Me Down" carries both sexual and non-sexual connotations. Most innocently, the phrase implies that one is "clean," "fresh," or otherwise "fly." In entreating another to "wipe me down"—as one would wipe down a newly washed car in the final stage of cleaning—the speaker indicates that she has reached the pinnacle of freshness.

The alternate meanings of "wipe me down" concern various acts associated with blow jobs: "to suck a man or boys dick or prick," suggests one Urban Dictionary user. Others consider a wiping down oral sex by proxy: "to give a guy a handjob by licking your hands and 'wiping' him down." Still others present a more ambiguous, but clearly sexual meaning: "To be used when things go extremely well with someone or something, for example, with someone of romantic interest. To wipe him or her down is a very good time indeed."

SHELF LIFE: Will never make it through the winter. Song kinda sucks, too.

10. "Lollipop"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Lil' Wayne's "Lick it Like a Lollipop"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Sexual infantilization ahead. "It's basically a cock. As in lick the lollipop. Refering to blowjobs. Lil Wayne made a song called Lollipop about this topic."

SEE ALSO: 50 Cent's "Candy Shop"

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9. "Ridin' My Pony"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Ginuwine's "My Pony"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Ginuwine's pony, obviously, is his cock. One commenter commends Ginuwine for invoking a diminuitive horse as opposed to a more sizeable stallion; I'm just impressed he manages to carry the analogy throughout the song. His saddle is waiting, ladies.

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8. "The Nappy Dug Out"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Ice Cube's "Givin Up the Nappy Dug Out"

UNDERLYING MEANING: All this means is vagina, but points for originality.

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7. "Milkshake"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Kelis' "Milkshake"

UNDERLYING MEANING: I always assumed "milkshake" stood for "blowjob." In the context of the song, that interpretation would have Kelis performing mass outdoor yard blowjobs for all the boys. Kelis had this to say about the true meaning of the frothy drink: "Milkshake is just that thing that makes a woman stand out from everyone else. It's a thing that makes you sensual and warm and maternal. It could be about breasts but I don't have huge tits so you gotta work with what you got."

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6. "Skeet"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Lil' John's "Get Low"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Ejaculating; "To shoot your man juice up on ur bitch."

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5. "Make it Rain"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Fat Joe's "Make It Rain"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Urban Dictionary identifies two levels of euphemism in this rap standard: "In strip clubs, it is when you throw stacks of money all over women (this is the "edited" definition)"; "When a man ejaculates all over a woman (this is the "explicit" definition)."

SEE ALSO: Lil' Wayne's "Rain Man (Strip Club Anthem)"

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4. "Superman That Ho"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Soulja Boy's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Is it not intuitive? "When you cum on a girls back and then stick the sheets to her, so when she wakes up in the morning she has a cape."

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3. "Wild Thing"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Tone Loc's "Wild Thing"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Dropped in 1989, this song is one of the original examples of hip-hop sex euphemism. Now, "doin' the wild thing" is so intimately associated with having sex that it's hard to believe it was once ambiguous.

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2. "O.P.P."

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DEFINING MOMENT: Naughty By Nature's "O.P.P."

UNDERLYING MEANING: "Other People's Property," generally. Throughout the song, "O.P.P." is made to signify both "Other People's Penis" and "Other People's Pussy." According to Wikipedia, "when the song asks the listener if they're 'Down with O.P.P.,' it is asking the listener if he/she is willing to have sexual relations with a person who is known to already have a significant other." The enthusiastic call-and-response that generally accompanies this song suggests that we're all a bunch of cheaters. Or we have no fucking idea what Naughty by Nature is talking about.

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1. "Doin' It"

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DEFINING MOMENT: LL Cool J's "Doin' It"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Sex.

Via Bitch:

The video . . . features a host of bikini-clad women being covered with buckets of viscous white paint, most of which ends up on their faces.

. . . In the end, it's not that Roth is any more misogynist than many other guys in hip-hop, and I think there's more than a hint of racism in holding Roth to a higher standard than a lot of black or latino rappers.  Still, Roth's cluelessness is insufferable, and to see him sail to success using the novelty of his own suburban upbringing and pale skin tone — even in the face of lackluster flow and weak rhymes — is quite frustrating.

In other words, it's not just the video that's masturbatory.