LGBTQ reprentatn the hip-hop scene has flourished the last few years. Read on to learn more about some of the biggt gay and lbian rappers the mic dtry.
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LIL NAS X HOP GAY RAPPERS FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FEMALE RAPPERS
* female lgbt rappers *
In the same ve, we also tend to see and hear a certa type of emcee over others—one who checks every box that aligns wh the genre’s firm power stctur both sonilly and athetilly, leavg many talented artists out of the equatn simply bee of who they self is an extensn of black culture and the muny that birthed , one that rri a longstandg, well-documented history of homophobia and transphobia.
This mdset often translat to the lyrics ma famo by some of the game’s top artists, such as Emem’s rampant homophobia 2000’s “Crimal, ” Lil Wayne’s e of “faggot” 2008’s “A Milli, ” and Kanye Wt’s “no homo” bar Jay-Z’s 2009 h “Run This Town, ” stanc hardly scratchg the surface. We always have to be strong, ” Rosar, who intifi as gay and Ao-Lato, explas to The Root.
(He intifi as gay.