Hip hop has a long history of gay slurs and homophobic attus, but a new generatn of rappers is changg this. Lil Nas X, who me out on the last day of Pri Month, jos a growg roster of gay male hip hop artists.
Contents:
- RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK
- HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
Future's Gay Lyric On 'Comg Out Strong' Ded By Kodak Black * is future the rapper gay *
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.
FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK
From Tyler, the Creator to Lil Nas X, hip-hop has never had so many stars who intify as gay or bisexual. Is this a blip or a turng pot? * is future the rapper gay *
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.
HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
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"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).
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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. 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. 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. The star knew she was gay sce her first year of school, but nied to her mother until she me out — to the support of her fay — when she was 18 years old.
"There's a lot of rappers out there, a lot of gay girls exprsg themselv; I'm not the first to say , I'm not the first to rap about , " she told The Guardian. It's kd of sad that those few who do e out get so much attentn bee they are gay, rather than bee of their mic.
30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
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Mykki Blan told Pl that his father knew he was gay sce he was 3 years old, though he didn't e out publicly till much later. He admted to "BBC Breakfast" that he didn't feel like homosexualy was "accepted eher the untry [or] hip-hop muny, " but he hoped fans would "feel fortable" wh .
However, he urged gay fans to be ut when g out to homophobic parents, notg 's important to have a back-up plan if thgs go awry. NBC News noted his mic serv as a much-need opposn to a hip-hop culture where homophobic lyrics have tradnally been the norm (50 cent, famed for g the "f" word his songs, has sce apologized for past homophobia, as has Emem).