This past Wednday, Lil B released his anticipated album I'm Gay on iTun. The project shows a more ser, trospective si of Based God over soulful productn...
Contents:
- LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
- LIL B IS GAY, VERIFIED
- RAPPER LIL B ON 'I'M GAY': 'WE'RE ALL ONE PEOPLE'
- LIL B, I’M GAY
- I’M GAY (I’M HAPPY)
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
Lil Nas X is gettg praise for how he handled a nversatn about homosexualy wh edian Kev Hart. Before the rapper uld rpond, Hart – who stepped down om hostg the Osrs 2018 after homophobic tweets he’d ma years earlier rurfaced – terjected.
“He said he was gay, ” Hart said. “Homosexualy, gay people, ” Lil Nas said. Lil Nas posted a seri of tweets on the last day of Pri month, where he tend to share wh his followers that he intifi as gay.
A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. At his Coachella performance, Lil B, spired as ual, announced that, bee "words don't mean sh, " he is gog to make a rerd lled I'm Gay. Words, of urse, mean lots of thgs, which B is not unaware of, and he quickly clarified that he lov women, but that gay also means happy.
LIL B IS GAY, VERIFIED
It also means homosexual, which, rap, is the more prevalent fn (shout to Mister Cee). If he actually do release an album lled I'm Gay, B will certaly be stirrg the pot, but what might make sizzle is to actually say that he is gay.
RAPPER LIL B ON 'I'M GAY': 'WE'RE ALL ONE PEOPLE'
Barrg that, he clearly is a spirual graduate of the Gay-Straight Stunt Alliance, whatever si he ss on. At this year's Coachella Mic and Arts Ftival, Lil B announced he would name one of his future albums "I'm Gay.
" STORY HIGHLIGHTS Album tle has brought bate, ath threats "I'm not homosexual. In ont of thoands of ncert-goers at April's Coachella Mic and Arts Ftival, the 21-year-old rap artist announced that he would name one of his future albums "I'm Gay.
Well, for starters, Lil B is not gay. " "I thk that (announcement) was so much bigger than he was, " said Terrance Dean, a former MTV executive and the openly gay thor of the book "Hidg Hip-Hop. " While advot the LGBT muny like Dean feel that Lil B is scere, others like Lloyd "Gyant" Dwiddie, a BET blogger of the year who is openly gay, aren't so sure.
LIL B, I’M GAY
CNN: What were you thkg when you named the album "I'm Gay?
I hope that I n turn some of my fans that might be homophobic or supporters that might be homophobic and say, "You know what, we're all one people. Lil B: Maly, a lot of them are on Twter, sayg that they're gog to kill me for beg gay, and they're gog to kill me for beg homosexual even though I'm not homosexual. Durg season 8 of Amerin Idol 2009, the "Whataya Want om Me" performer was outed and faced homophobic ments om viewers across the untry.
"I thk he is fely like the gay pop star that is 2021 — he’s bold, he’s ntroversial, he’s phg boundari, " he said. It’s jt taken this long to have be a gay one. Lil Nas X me out as gay June 2019.
I’M GAY (I’M HAPPY)
But the fact that a rap-aligned gay Black artist — let alone one who’s also such a untry fan that he vered Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” — uld pull this off atop the charts was startlg.
Hip-hop artists like Young Thug sometim toyed wh wearg drs to illtrate their ee spirs, but Lil Nas X ma a not-obv choice to put gay love and sire at the center of his craft. ’ If a gay person is playg wh Satanic them, you n’t not thk of Kenh Anger and Satan as a liberator, ” said Malamet, a wrer and podster on the history of queer genre and horror films. After announcg the tle of his album would be I’m Gay, the California native’s name was plastered mastream prs clippgs om the Huffgton Post to CNN.