Lil Nas X, Tyler, the Creator lead wave of gay/bisexual rappers - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• IS NELLY GAY?
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• DIDDY ALLEGEDLY COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY
• IS NELLY FURTADO GAY?

IS NELLY GAY?

Nowadays, there is no answer to the qutn -Nelly is gay? Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that Nelly is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg.

The g out of Nelly would greatly benef untls homosexuals around the world who are still the closet.

HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

Celebri such as Nelly have not admted they are homosexual, this is sce they're fely not gay or sce they're and do not want to go public. Although Nelly has never reported to be homosexual, 's easier to e out the world of the celebri, as there have been many to precent this. Do you know any rmatn regardg the qutn - Is Nelly gay?

It's no secret that there's been a longstandg stigma when to homosexualy hip-hop. Here's a look at hip-hop artists who embrace beg gay, lbian or bisexual.

DIDDY ALLEGEDLY COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY

Is Nelly Gay? Nelly is straight when to his sexual orientatn and is neher gay nor bisexual. A$AP was also plagued wh gay mors over the years but he sisted he's straight.

IS NELLY FURTADO GAY?

Meanwhile, 2009, rapper Xzib relled the one time he was taken to a gay club by Diddy. A very feme or seemgly homosexual male, popularized by season three of "Arrted Development, " where Gee Senr and Lucille Bluth refer to the seemgly homosexual Tobias as a "nelly.

See homosexual, effemate, homo, fag, queer, Vampire. No, he's not gay, I don't know where all you inoclasts got that. Idt: Nelly's a gay fag, if you listen to him, you're not a gangster like me, e I listen to Fty.

A gay St. A tight polo shirt wearg POP ARTIST/homo om who thks wearg nasal strips on his cheek is "ol".

An ultra-stereotypilly gay man. A nelly queen n't stop this behavr, and acts this way around both straight and gay people: they are thought to have been born out of the closet.

Many gay men avoid associatg wh "nelli" bee they actually don't naturally act that way, and they don't want to be associated wh the stereotype. ”Overnight, the 20-year-old Atlanta native — born Montero Lamar Hill — beme the biggt gay pop star the world.

”“It’s hard to be out genr where beg gay, or exprsg your sexualy, is owned upon, ” add platum rapper and sger iLoveMakonnen, born Makonnen Sheran, who rose to fame as a protégé of Drake and me out as gay 2017.

”Before the viral sensatn of “Old Town Road” turned Hill to a pop star and gay in, hip-hop was already reachg a turng pot s clivy, as more young black men explorg sexualy and terrogatg masculy their work are gettg mastream attentn. ) Kev Abstract, founr of hip-hop llective Brockhampton, me out as gay 2016. Rap culture has always been powered by unbridled machismo, and one would be hard prsed to not fd a gay slur embedd the lyrics of any of the genre’s most famo archects.

In fact, an entire lexin dited to potg out disfort wh gay men has permeated rap lyrics. Slang such as “s” and “No homo” and “Pse” that e queerns as a punchle have been thrown around sually for as the old guard has been replaced wh a younger generatn unncerned wh rigid labels and unbothered by genre, today’s rap and R&B scene isn’t as exclively heteronormative as once was.

“We know folks our muny have always been religly nservative, and beg gay is still seen as taboo, ” said Ebro Darn, the global edorial head of hip-hop and R&B for Apple Mic and host of “Ebro the Morng” on New York’s Hot 97 rad statn. ”Over the past uple of years, Ocean’s former Odd Future llaborator, Tyler, the Creator, has transned om a bratty provotr who hurled gay slurs wh reckls abandon to a thoughtful nfsnalist, one who surprisgly and rather matter-of-factly raps about his own attractn to men.

A diverse array of talents such as Brockhampton ontman Kev Abstract, Steve Lacy (also formerly affiliated wh Odd Future) and Skype Williams have all prented works this year that are eely crafted through a black queer his “Arizona Baby” album, -produced by Jack Antonoff (Taylor Swift), Abstract reflects on growg up gay and Corp Christi at the turn of the lennium. And a young black gay man has the No. 1 song Ameri and jt eclipsed a chart rerd that Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men set 23 years ago wh “One Sweet Day, ” a song spired by the AIDS crisis and the tragic peril brought to so many black gay men this untry.

Walter Thompson Innovatn Group back 2016 found that only 48% of 13-20 year-olds intified as exclively heterosexual, pared to 65% of the generatn before is an dience that shgs when Tyler, the Creator do an about-face the way he did on 2017’s stellar “Flower Boy” where he sually rapped about beg attracted to men after years of g gay slurs — a topic he still ref to addrs outsi of the mic (he cled to be terviewed for this piece). “Tth is, sce a youth kid, thought was a phase / thought ’d be like the phrase; ‘poof, ’ gone / But, ’s still go’ on, ” he that’s not to say the rt of the mic dtry is that much further mic had lacked an openly gay superstar before Adam Lambert and Sam Smh ma history wh their chart buts and Grammy victori, rpectively. And spe their stat as legendary rock hmakers and gay ins, there was much hand-wrgg over how bpics for Queen and Elton John would handle the queerns of s evolutn hip-hop is signifint, albe more gradual and ls pronounced than the larger shift pop culture over reprentatns of black male was Fox’s hip-hop drama “Empire, ” which ma a powerful statement by makg one of s leads a gay black R&B sger (for a time, the rerds released by the character — played by Jsie Smollett — were the only mic by an out gay black man gettg mastream rad play.