Contents:
- RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- CHANCE THE RAPPER DEFENDS DAVE CHAPPELLE’S “GAY JOK” COMMENT IN GHANA
- INTRODUCG COOPER GAY
RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
I do regnize myself as a bisexual male & do & have always openly supported the gay muny & will keep dog so 2017. Acrdg to the brand, all proceeds will go to the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) which advot the safety of LGBTQ stunts schools.
gay marriage ban, slashed rporate tax rat, and gutted the state’s prized. We saw when hip-hop heavyweight Emem peppered "Rap God" wh anti-gay slurs, spe claimg he had no problem wh homosexualy.
CHANCE THE RAPPER DEFENDS DAVE CHAPPELLE’S “GAY JOK” COMMENT IN GHANA
We saw Snoop Dogg's famo 2013 terview wh The Guardian, when the "G and Juice" rapper claimed, "[Homosexualy is] acceptable the sgg world, but the rap world I don't know if will ever be acceptable bee rap is so mascule.
Though the hip-hop muny is jt begng to accept queerns, the openly gay rappers are bravely pavg the way. Odd Future has long been cricized for s homophobic lyrics, so much so that the band was booted om Atralia's massive Big Day Out ftival 2011, acrdg to Billboard. In Ocean's letter, which was origally meant to be clud the "Channel Orange" ler not, the rapper spoke about havg his first gay romance at the age of 19.
"I cid to do bee I wish I had someone like that [an openly gay female artist] while I was g up, " she told LA Weekly. Nohels, the Odd Future DJ wasn't exactly accepted to the gay muny, particularly nsirg Odd Future's ntroversial history (Tyler the Creator the word "f****t" 200 tim on "Gobl" alone). 1 but on the Billboard 200, and a multi-ln dollar rerd al wh RCA, which ontman Kev Abstract claimed was gog to help them ph their "gay agenda.
INTRODUCG COOPER GAY
"I'd see negative ments and fet [beg gay] was a big al to some people, that some people hadn't heard before, " he told ShortList. Sheran has sce parted ways wh Drake, who helped him nab a Grammy nomatn, but he ma an even bigger impact on his own when he me out as gay on Twter 2017. By 2015, the rapper felt like people still didn't get the ht and took to Twter to air her grievanc followg an onslght of accatns claimg she was homophobic.
"I want to create mic that n be played every gay club all over the world bee those are my people.
However, her work still feels radil rather than regrsive, bee Young MA is one of the few outspokenly gay members of the greater hip-hop muny.