Maryland-bred emcee IDK picked openly gay rapper Scy Santana as a feature for his 'F65' album track "Pot Noir."
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- SCY SANTANA REFLECTS ON BEG KNOWN AS A “GAY RAPPER”: “THAT IS WHO I’M FIGHTG FOR”
- SCY SANTANA: GAY RAPPER SIGNS RERD DEAL WH RCA RERDS | VIDEO
- SCY SANTANA EMBRAC BEG LABELED “A GAY RAPPER” IN NEW COVER STORY
- SCY SANTANA ON THE IMPACT OF LGBTQ+ ARTISTS: "GAYS REALLY RUN THE WORLD"
- RCA RERDS SIGNS GAY RAPPER SCY SANTANA
- IDK TALKS COLLABORATG WH OPENLY GAY RAPPER SCY SANTANA
SCY SANTANA REFLECTS ON BEG KNOWN AS A “GAY RAPPER”: “THAT IS WHO I’M FIGHTG FOR”
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Santana, who intifi as gay, is a rary the hip-hop world. “Sometim people look at gay as supposed to be this, or supposed to be that, ” he tells TIME. “When ’s so many different typ of gay.
It’s so many different looks to beg gay. As an openly gay rapper the notorly homophobic hip-hop landspe, Santana has always had to work wh a thick sk.
Wh gay rappers like Lil Nas X fully gog mastream, Santana knows that his time is now. “The world has changed so much, and gay is everywhere, ” he said.
SCY SANTANA: GAY RAPPER SIGNS RERD DEAL WH RCA RERDS | VIDEO
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So regardls of if somebody is albo, polka dot, gay, lbian, if ’s a h rerd, ’s a h rerd and that’s somethg that you n’t ny. Scy Santana adms that he origally didn’t like feelg “boxed” as a “gay rapper, ” but has sce e to embrace the tle.
“Inially, was, ” Santana said, when asked if ’s “annoyg” beg rced to jt a “gay rapper. He ntued: “I ially was so big on beg accepted by the straight people that I didn’t wanna be known as a ‘gay rapper. ’ Now I don’t md someone llg me a gay rapper or a LGBT rapper bee that is my muny.
SCY SANTANA EMBRAC BEG LABELED “A GAY RAPPER” IN NEW COVER STORY
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SCY SANTANA ON THE IMPACT OF LGBTQ+ ARTISTS: "GAYS REALLY RUN THE WORLD"
So I don’t md holdg the ‘gay rapper’ rapper tle. *Followg Lil Nas X’s succs as a gay artist, rerd labels are now keen on signg openly gay rappers. Scy Santana, an openly gay rapper, has now benefed om this pursu after signg a rerd al wh RCA Rerds.
By the way, 2018, RCA Rerds signed Brockhampton, an all-boys band, to a $15 ln al “to ph the gay agenda. When ILoveMakonnen began intifyg as openly gay 2017, the Atlanta rap group Migos cricized the artist, wh member Quavo suggtg that Makonnen’s sexualy unrmed his trap lyrics. “We actually have gay rappers out there, " Fetch said.
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RCA RERDS SIGNS GAY RAPPER SCY SANTANA
Though homophobia is still nng rampant the rap dtry, Santana explaed why he’s now embracg beg a “gay rapper. “Before, I didn’t want to be labeled a gay rapper, ” he tailed. But when you’re a dark-skned Black, gay rapper who dispts genr norms, you don’t que expect your existence to be normalized, or sometim even regnized outsi of your own muny.
IDK TALKS COLLABORATG WH OPENLY GAY RAPPER SCY SANTANA
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As an openly gay artist (who also wears long acrylic nails, eyelash, and makp unapologetilly), took a lot of heart for Santana to walk his tth. Blair CaldwellStartg out, Santana hated beg lled the "gay rapper.
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