"People feel like, jt bee you like to drs well ... that don't mean you're gay! I don't know where that me om!" said Andre Benjam, a.k.a. Andre 3000 of Outkast, at the lnch of his men's clothg le at Barneys last night.
Contents:
- IS BIG BOI GAY? SHERLA PATTON REPORTEDLY FDS EXPLIC PHOTOS OF ANDRE 3000 ON ESTRANGED HBAND'S PHONE
- THE GAY RAPPER
- ANDRE 3000, BIG BOI FACE GAY RUMORS, TALK OF OUTKAST RNNBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 29, 2013/10:46 AMBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 29, 2013 / 10:46 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"ANDRE 3000, BIG BOI FACE GAY RUMORS, TALK OF OUTKAST RNN","DATEPUBLISHED":"2013-11-29T15:46:32.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2013-11-29T15:46:32.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OUTKAST HAS BEEN OFF OUR RADAR FOR SO LONG WE FOT ALL ABOUT THEM. BUT THE HIP-HOP DUO OF ANDRE "ANDRE 3000" BENJAM AND ANTWAN "BIG BOI" PATTON ARE MORED TO BE RETURNG TO THE SCENE AFTER A SIX YEAR HIAT. THE "MS JACKSON" SGERS ARE SUPPOSEDLY RNG AT THE COACHELLA MIC FTIVAL NEXT APRIL, FOLLOWED BY APPEARANC AT OTHER BIG MIC FTS THROUGH THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}2003'S SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW SRED BIG BOI AND ANDRE 3000 A GRAMMY FOR BT ALBUM, PL TWO NUMBER ONE SGL ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 ("HEY YA!" AND "THE WAY YOU MOVE"), BUT THEIR FILM, IDLEWILD, SANK LIKE A STONE AND THE TWO FOCED ON SOLO PROJECTS. ANDRE GUTED ON SONGS BY KE$HA AND DRAKE, WHILE BIG BOI DROPPED TWO ALBUMS, 2010'S SIR LUC LEFT FOOT: THE SON OF CHI DTY AND 2012'S VIC LI AND DANGERO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPEAKG OF DANGERO MORS, PATTON IS THE SUBJECT OF ONE HIMSELF, AS HIS SOON-TO-BE EX-WIFE IS CLAIMG THE RAPPER IS GAY: IN A POSN, SHERLA PATTON TOLD JURORS SHE FOUND EXPLIC PICTUR OF BEJAM ON HER HUBBY'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THE WHOLE WORLD WONRG WHERE ANDRE 3K BEEN," SHE STATED. "JT CHECK BIG BOI'S PHONE. HE'S RIGHT THERE, NAKED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHETHER SHERLA MEANT THE TWO ARE A UPLE OR THAT BIG BOI IS SECRETLY LTG AFTER ANDRE ISN'T CLEAR, BUT SHE DITED HER 11-YEAR MARRIAGE WAS "IRRETRIEVABLY BROKEN."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HONTLY, WE THOUGHT 'D BE ANDRE 3000 FACG GAY MORS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- EXCLIVE: ANDRE 3000 OF OUTKAST NOT GAY, HAVG SEX WH FILM PRODUCER
- OUTKAST’S ANDRE 3000: I’M NOT GAY
- BIG BOI DENI OUTKAST GAY RUMORS
- ANDRE 3000: “JT BEE YOU LIKE TO DRS WELL … THAT DON’T MEAN YOU’RE GAY!”
IS BIG BOI GAY? SHERLA PATTON REPORTEDLY FDS EXPLIC PHOTOS OF ANDRE 3000 ON ESTRANGED HBAND'S PHONE
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Although Brten lived a time and place where homosexualy was illegal, the Suffolk-born poser was an openly gay man. His many love letters to tenor, Sir Peter Pears, were later ed an exhibn to mark the 50th anniversary of The 1967 Sexual Offenc Act, the law that started the revolutnary procs of crimalisg homosexualy England and Wal.
It’s wonrful to be gay. I love beg gay. I thk I wouldn’t have had the life I’ve had if I hadn’t been gay.
THE GAY RAPPER
Acrdg to Arthur Lrents, who worked closely wh the mician on Wt Si Story, Leonard was “a gay man who got married. He was jt gay. I remember beg hella young and celebratg when gay marriage was legalised out here.
ANDRE 3000, BIG BOI FACE GAY RUMORS, TALK OF OUTKAST RNNBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 29, 2013/10:46 AMBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 29, 2013 / 10:46 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"ANDRE 3000, BIG BOI FACE GAY RUMORS, TALK OF OUTKAST RNN","DATEPUBLISHED":"2013-11-29T15:46:32.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2013-11-29T15:46:32.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OUTKAST HAS BEEN OFF OUR RADAR FOR SO LONG WE FOT ALL ABOUT THEM. BUT THE HIP-HOP DUO OF ANDRE "ANDRE 3000" BENJAM AND ANTWAN "BIG BOI" PATTON ARE MORED TO BE RETURNG TO THE SCENE AFTER A SIX YEAR HIAT. THE "MS JACKSON" SGERS ARE SUPPOSEDLY RNG AT THE COACHELLA MIC FTIVAL NEXT APRIL, FOLLOWED BY APPEARANC AT OTHER BIG MIC FTS THROUGH THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}2003'S SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW SRED BIG BOI AND ANDRE 3000 A GRAMMY FOR BT ALBUM, PL TWO NUMBER ONE SGL ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 ("HEY YA!" AND "THE WAY YOU MOVE"), BUT THEIR FILM, IDLEWILD, SANK LIKE A STONE AND THE TWO FOCED ON SOLO PROJECTS. ANDRE GUTED ON SONGS BY KE$HA AND DRAKE, WHILE BIG BOI DROPPED TWO ALBUMS, 2010'S SIR LUC LEFT FOOT: THE SON OF CHI DTY AND 2012'S VIC LI AND DANGERO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPEAKG OF DANGERO MORS, PATTON IS THE SUBJECT OF ONE HIMSELF, AS HIS SOON-TO-BE EX-WIFE IS CLAIMG THE RAPPER IS GAY: IN A POSN, SHERLA PATTON TOLD JURORS SHE FOUND EXPLIC PICTUR OF BEJAM ON HER HUBBY'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THE WHOLE WORLD WONRG WHERE ANDRE 3K BEEN," SHE STATED. "JT CHECK BIG BOI'S PHONE. HE'S RIGHT THERE, NAKED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHETHER SHERLA MEANT THE TWO ARE A UPLE OR THAT BIG BOI IS SECRETLY LTG AFTER ANDRE ISN'T CLEAR, BUT SHE DITED HER 11-YEAR MARRIAGE WAS "IRRETRIEVABLY BROKEN."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HONTLY, WE THOUGHT 'D BE ANDRE 3000 FACG GAY MORS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
Followg the song’s release, The Grammy Award-wner, who me out as gay durg Pri Month, told CBS that public figur g out will “always help” others who may be stgglg but believ there is “still much to be done”. A pneer of the psdo-operatic vol style, Rob also plays the guar, bass, harmoni, keyboard and dms, and has performed wh other famo bands throughout his reer, cludg Black Sabbath, Metalli and ‘Breakg the Law’ sger announced that he was gay durg an MTV terview, makg him the first metal in to e out publicly. His orchtral works clu secular orator, A Child of Our Time (1935-41), Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (1953), and dramatic opera, The Midsummer Marriage, which buted at Covent Garn 1955 and was led by nductor John Michael me out as gay his mid-30s and thanks to his fluence the classil world, the poser beme hugely fluential shapg public perceptn of homosexualy.
Hip hop’s attu towards sexualy has often been divisive (Picture: Getty)There’s a lot to be said about the language hip hop when to homophobia. Emem has been forced to nont his e of the F-word and other gay slurs throughout his reer, while others, like Kanye Wt, have perpetuated the term ‘no homo’ through their lyrics.
J Cole drew cricism when he ed the F-word three tim on his 2013 track Villumati but later said was ed to highlight the issue of homophobia rap.
EXCLIVE: ANDRE 3000 OF OUTKAST NOT GAY, HAVG SEX WH FILM PRODUCER
In 2015, Travis Stt apologised for hurlg gay slurs on-stage at a gig when he felt the dience weren’t beg enthiastic enough. The mician has prevly scribed herself as a gay man but embrac her ‘feme’ si through cloth, hair and make-up. In this new era of hip hop, Lil Nas X has notably found himself at the centre of the nversatn after g out as gay 2017 and unapologetilly owng his sexualy sce.
Sharma explaed: ‘The distctn between male artists that have worked the hip hop space beg gay/bisexual vers actual MCs beg gay/bisexual is tertg. ‘Beg a rapper still wh a certa set of clichés, even if subnsc or unspoken, that don’t align wh what people wrongly assume homosexualy mt be.
Young MA has prevly scribed herself as gay but now prefers not to e labels. ‘Many men [ rap] are embarrassed, ashamed, or unfortable to be around gay, bisexual, and transgenr people bee of what [others] may thk, but they don’t have this energy for girls who are bisexual.
OUTKAST’S ANDRE 3000: I’M NOT GAY
In 2017, Taylor Bent me out as bisexual, and ILoveMakonnen me out as gay.
BIG BOI DENI OUTKAST GAY RUMORS
Sharma argued: ‘Beg a rapper still wh a certa set of clichés, even if subnsc or unspoken, that don’t align wh what people wrongly assume homosexualy mt be. OutKast's Andre 3000 summed up the mood of most rappers when he said: "One of the worst mours I heard about myself was that I was homosexual. "Known for s braggadoc boastg and heterosexual posturg, hip-hop has ltle time for exprsns of homosexualy.
ANDRE 3000: “JT BEE YOU LIKE TO DRS WELL … THAT DON’T MEAN YOU’RE GAY!”
"Unsubstantiated gossip has long circulated as to who "the gay rapper" might be - the ia that there uld be only one is tellg. Erick Sermon, Queen Latifah and "Gay"-Z have all nied ttle-tattle.
Kimora Lee Simmons, the wife of Def Jam founr Rsell Simmons, recently signed black, gay rapper Cshun to her Baby Phat rerd label.
So long as you're not overtly gay and tryg to ph on me. A 25-year-old om Basildon, Essex, he is also the UK's first openly homosexual hip-hopper. And, as QBoy, he has no plans to let homophobia stand his way.