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Contents:
- 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
- HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR
- LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS
- 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
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Lil Nas X is unprecented: he emerged om the pths of stan Twter to take over the pop charts, all the while growg as an unabashedly gay rapper.
The song is one of his bt, but s real power om the acpanyg, highly-stylized vio where Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated wh Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow an unseemly role as the Straight Whe Savr who livers a verse that is mid at bt and appropriate at worst).
HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR
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Bee of stctural vlence herent this untry's rceral system, posng the stutn as a gay utopia is a risky choice.
However, when nsirg Lil Nas X's reer path, Montero State Prison is a settg that mirrors realy; as he is repeatedly cricized by evangelil Christians and Twter trolls alike for elevatg gay reprentatn — particularly for the prison's namake, his last sgle "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)" — 's unrstandable Lil Nas X would nsir homophobia a prison, clstrophobic and imposg, pecially the mic dtry.
LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS
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As he be bolr his lyrics and creative visn, Lil Nas X begs to transcend nf of "The Gay Rapper" stereotype, rvg out space for himself as an unapologetic msiah for today's young, queer generatn. ”Overnight, the 20-year-old Atlanta native — born Montero Lamar Hill — beme the biggt gay pop star the world.
'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
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”“It’s hard to be out genr where beg gay, or exprsg your sexualy, is owned upon, ” add platum rapper and sger iLoveMakonnen, born Makonnen Sheran, who rose to fame as a protégé of Drake and me out as gay 2017. ”Before the viral sensatn of “Old Town Road” turned Hill to a pop star and gay in, hip-hop was already reachg a turng pot s clivy, as more young black men explorg sexualy and terrogatg masculy their work are gettg mastream attentn.
) Kev Abstract, founr of hip-hop llective Brockhampton, me out as gay 2016. Rap culture has always been powered by unbridled machismo, and one would be hard prsed to not fd a gay slur embedd the lyrics of any of the genre’s most famo archects.
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In fact, an entire lexin dited to potg out disfort wh gay men has permeated rap lyrics.
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Slang such as “s” and “No homo” and “Pse” that e queerns as a punchle have been thrown around sually for as the old guard has been replaced wh a younger generatn unncerned wh rigid labels and unbothered by genre, today’s rap and R&B scene isn’t as exclively heteronormative as once was.
“We know folks our muny have always been religly nservative, and beg gay is still seen as taboo, ” said Ebro Darn, the global edorial head of hip-hop and R&B for Apple Mic and host of “Ebro the Morng” on New York’s Hot 97 rad statn.