Gay rap, the unthkable be realy | Hip-hop | The Guardian

Contents:

• 14 MORE OF THE MOST UNTENTNALLY GAY RAP LYRICS EVER
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• GAY RAP, THE UNTHKABLE BE REALY
• THE BT GAY RAP SONGS
• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• IRANIAN OFFICIAL FIRED AFTER ALLEGED GAY SEX TAPE LEAKED
• [WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY

14 MORE OF THE MOST UNTENTNALLY GAY RAP LYRICS EVER

"If I was gay I would thk Hip-hop hat me", a le om Macklemore's landmark songSame Love, giv a sense of the relatnship Rap has had wh the LGBTQ muny. To answer this Rapalytics search for homophobic words rap lyrics over the past 25 years!

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

"If I was gay I would thk Hip-hop hat me" - Same Love, Macklemore and Ryan LewisIntroducg Profany Explorer om RapalyticsRapalytics has currently procsed lyril ntent of over 10, 000 songs om over 150 artists. There are 8 tegori of profane words: N-word, Misogynistic, Homophobic, F*ck, A*s, Sh*t, Sexual and miscellaneo. Homophobia over timeSo lets take a look at how homophobia has changed over time.

From the graph below n be seen that homophobia rose durg the Gangster-rap era, peaked durg the 2000's and is on a cle sce then. % homophobic words between 1987-2013You may notice that even durg the peak, homophobic words were only about 0. Compare this to misogynistic words the graph below and you'll see thatRappers are more misogynistic than homophobic!

% Misogynistic & Homophobic words between 1987-2013At the center of this issue is Emem!

GAY RAP, THE UNTHKABLE BE REALY

Right om Marshal Mathers LP 2000 to s 2nd part 2013, his lyrics have featured several homophobic slurs.

The difference is pecially signifint 2013, where the homophobic levels would've dropped to pre-1990's if wasn't for Emem. % homophobic words wh & whout Emem between 1987-2013So is Emem really the most homophobic rapper? Here are the top 10 rappers ranked by homophobia that have atleast 15, 000 words procsed by Rapalytics!

Artist#Words#Homophobic% HomophobicNecro18350130. 036%So who are the one's wh no homophobic ntent?

THE BT GAY RAP SONGS

Most notable rappers wh no homophobic ntent clu Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye Wt, Tyga, Yo Gotti, T. By the looks of , most of the new school rappers rea om g any homophobic lyrics!

Its que clear that homophobia is dyg Rap, atleast mastream Rap lyrics.

"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily - Same Love, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. It's easy to pull one le om a homophobic tough-guy gangsta rapper that, on s own, mak him sound ravenoly gay. And we say that bee we're fuckg hard, not gay.

30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)

We saw when hip-hop heavyweight Emem peppered "Rap God" wh anti-gay slurs, spe claimg he had no problem wh homosexualy. 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.

IRANIAN OFFICIAL FIRED AFTER ALLEGED GAY SEX TAPE LEAKED

"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).

[WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY

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. "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.