Sexy Hip-Hop Poets Teach HIV/AIDS Prevention

“Are you ready for Punany?” she said.

For nearly 10 years, Holter has heard a resounding “yes” from largely black audiences who have flocked to see her troupe, The Punany Poets, perform poetry, music and dance to a sexy Afro-erotic beat.

The group has grown from stars of late-night cable TV in Holter’s native Oakland, Calif., in the late 1990s to a traveling road show that Holter says titillates and tantalizes while educating the audience on the importance of safe sex.

The Poets serve up something sexy for everybody. There’s Slam, 6-foot-plus of chiseled, tattooed, exotic dancing finery reciting a steamy ode to what he’d do for his Nubian queen.

For the same-sex crowd, there’s Lucky 7, a true hip-hopper who issues a cautionary rhyme for the fellas to treat their ladies right — or she will.

There’s Michelle Brewer — aka Pearl — a limber dancer who, with an almost near-naked Slam, earns ooohs and aaahs and “Go-on, girls” when he lifts her onto his shoulders, her legs straddling his face.

Then there’s Holter, a mischievous mistress of ceremony for the 13-to-15-member troupe who keeps it raw and keeps it real. In one moment she could be talking about sweat-drenching, toe-curling, make-you-wanna-holler intimacy, the next setting up a cautionary skit about a single mom’s frustrating visit to the welfare office.

 

But the Poets aren’t just all bump and grind. Members were artists, musicians, poets, and exotic dancers, social workers and, in Holter’s case, the ex-wife of a police officer, on a mission to curb AIDS in tehe black community.

A message of safe sex — via monogamy, condom use or abstinence — are laced into the performances.

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