Rappers Who Have Come Out As Gay

Contents:

• LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• AMERI NEED A GAY, BLACK MAN TO TOP S UNTRY CHARTS. PROTECT LIL NAS X AT ALL STS
• WHY GAY DRILL RAPPER CARTER THE BAND WANTS QUEER BLACK YOUTH TO ‘LIVE THEIR TTH’
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• GAY RAPROACHMG777OCT. 29, 20061 VIEWER319K VIEWS2 CONTRIBUTORSGAY RAP LYRICS[INTRO]WAHWAH, WAH, WAH WAHWAHYO3, 2[VERSE]I LIKE FAST, RIGHT MY ASS (HEHEHE, HEH!)I LIKE RIGHT AFTER I CUT THE GRASSBEE I'M SWEATY, I DON'T LIKE GIRLS NAMED BETTYI LIKE MEN, NAMED, CARLTONI LIKE WHEN THEY BLACK, 'E I GET ON MY BACKAND LIFT UP MY SACK, AND LICK MY ASS CRACKI DON'T PLAY THEM GAM, I DON'T PLAY THEM GIRLSI LIKE WHEN THEM BOYS ROCK MY WORLDI'M OM THAT WTBANK, I AM A SKANKI LIKE DICK, I'LL PLAY, I'LL FUCK YO CLICK'CSE I'LL BEND 'EM OVER, THE SHOWERI'LL DO FOR ONLY TWO DOLLARS (HEHEHE)I LIKE WHEN, THEY PUT ME ON MY BUTTCALL ME A DIRTY, LTLE SLUT'CSE WE OM THAT WTBANK, OM THE WTBANKWE GAY, ON THE WTBANKYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[OUTRO]UH, UH, 3, 2, 1, END!EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTTHIS SONG B IS UNREVIEWEDGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTOR“GAY RAP” IS A SUPPOSEDLY HUMORO, TONGUE--CHEEK LOOK AT HOMOSEXUALY. MIKEY-G PLAYFULNS AND LIGHTHEARTEDNS TO ADDRS THE TOPICS OF MALE SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS, AS WELL AS PERFORMG SEXUAL ACTS FOR MONEY.EXPAND SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHEN DID ROACHMG777 RELEASE “GAY RAP”?WHO WROTE “GAY RAP” BY ROACHMG777?CREDSWRTEN BYROACHMG777RELEASE DATEOCTOBER 29, 2006TAGSRAPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
• 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS

ILoveMakonneniLoveMakonnen follows one person on Instagram -- jt 12 ls than Kanye Shropshire via Getty ImagThe Atlanta native who embolned to thk clubbg on “Tuday” was acceptable 2014 performed a bolr act this January when he announced that he was gay. Given the hip-hop muny’s reputatn of homophobia, which is particularly geared towards gay men, iLoveMakkonen’s cisn to e out to the public was mendably unapologetic. Followg the the mass shootg at Pulse nightclub, Ocean took Tumblr to share his experienc wh homophobia followg the horrific attack which targeted the LGBTQ muny last June.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

Syd the KidSyd the Kid was formerly a member of hip-hop group Odd Grimwa via Getty ImagThe only thg better than an artist beg openly gay is listeng to them croon about their same-sex attractns their mic. ”“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.

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

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. 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.

AMERI NEED A GAY, BLACK MAN TO TOP S UNTRY CHARTS. PROTECT LIL NAS X AT ALL STS

“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.

WHY GAY DRILL RAPPER CARTER THE BAND WANTS QUEER BLACK YOUTH TO ‘LIVE THEIR TTH’

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. 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.

)“Moonlight, ” a g of age tale about a gay black boy, won bt picture at the Amy Awards 2017 and for the first time queer people of lor outnumbered their whe unterparts on TV, acrdg to GLAAD’s annual TV diversy report. Seri such as “Queen Sugar, ” “Dear Whe People” and “This Is Us” feature storyl abound nuanced black LGBTQ characters; meanwhile, Ryan Murphy’s “Pose, ” which has exposed the world to a part of black queer culture that has spired pop divas for s, is up for two Emmys, cludg one for Billy Porter, the first openly gay black man to receive a lead actor nod.

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

” And Emem has yet to retire his age of “faggot” the 18 years sce he famoly performed wh Elton John at the Grammys as a PR-orchtrated act of good will agast his vicly homophobic lyrics. A wave of black queer rap artists, cludg Le1f, Zebra Katz, Cak Da Killa, Mykki Blan and Hoe of LaDosha, broke out of New York at the start of the wh mic and visuals that upend the very same genr nstcts that have been weaponized agast gay men for the last century by pairg hyper-feme athetics — high fashn looks, weave, manicured fgertips — wh braggadocs’ rhym.

GAY RAPROACHMG777OCT. 29, 20061 VIEWER319K VIEWS2 CONTRIBUTORSGAY RAP LYRICS[INTRO]WAHWAH, WAH, WAH WAHWAHYO3, 2[VERSE]I LIKE FAST, RIGHT MY ASS (HEHEHE, HEH!)I LIKE RIGHT AFTER I CUT THE GRASSBEE I'M SWEATY, I DON'T LIKE GIRLS NAMED BETTYI LIKE MEN, NAMED, CARLTONI LIKE WHEN THEY BLACK, 'E I GET ON MY BACKAND LIFT UP MY SACK, AND LICK MY ASS CRACKI DON'T PLAY THEM GAM, I DON'T PLAY THEM GIRLSI LIKE WHEN THEM BOYS ROCK MY WORLDI'M OM THAT WTBANK, I AM A SKANKI LIKE DICK, I'LL PLAY, I'LL FUCK YO CLICK'CSE I'LL BEND 'EM OVER, THE SHOWERI'LL DO FOR ONLY TWO DOLLARS (HEHEHE)I LIKE WHEN, THEY PUT ME ON MY BUTTCALL ME A DIRTY, LTLE SLUT'CSE WE OM THAT WTBANK, OM THE WTBANKWE GAY, ON THE WTBANKYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[OUTRO]UH, UH, 3, 2, 1, END!EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTTHIS SONG B IS UNREVIEWEDGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTOR“GAY RAP” IS A SUPPOSEDLY HUMORO, TONGUE--CHEEK LOOK AT HOMOSEXUALY. MIKEY-G PLAYFULNS AND LIGHTHEARTEDNS TO ADDRS THE TOPICS OF MALE SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS, AS WELL AS PERFORMG SEXUAL ACTS FOR MONEY.EXPAND SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHEN DID ROACHMG777 RELEASE “GAY RAP”?WHO WROTE “GAY RAP” BY ROACHMG777?CREDSWRTEN BYROACHMG777RELEASE DATEOCTOBER 29, 2006TAGSRAPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

”Jt a few weeks ago, New Orleans rapper Young KSB went viral wh a glorly rnchy o to anilg that’s as sexually explic as anythg domatg Spotify playlists — but ’s impossible to image that viralns transng to the as Hill was celebrated for breakg rap’s gay glass ceilg, the jok about his sex life also ma to the news verage. When asked about Hill’s g out, Young Thug — a rapper who jumped on an “Old Town Road” remix and has toyed wh genr norms by drsg uture gowns — said that Hill “probably shouldn’t have told the world” he was gay. Dcribg the spiratn behd “Sorry I’m Late, ” he clared that “work ma by gay people don’t necsarily need to be like Troye-Sivan-twk-lily-whe-lhe-pastel-pk-pop..

But don’t have to be turbo-homo-DL-thug [stuff], eher, ” a snipe at the reali that face black queer artists when tryg to get their mic heard. He even faked a pregnancy to liver his latt jt Lil Lil Nas has bee one of the most high profile and succsful openly gay rappers, there are many other Black LGBTQ+ rappers, some of whom have spired Lil Nas rappers are all very different and, like Lil Nas, should not be seen purely as LGBTQ+ rappers.

Whilst LGBTQ+ rappers have historilly been subject to homophobic abe wh certa hip-hop muni, they have been central to the velopment of the 'bounce' movement, wh Freedia beg one of the most proment artists this sub-genre. He don't shy away om beg open his mic about his sexualy and sex life, which isn't unmon for straight artists to do hip hop mic, but not necsarily for a gay artist. (Matt Wkelmeyer / Getty Imag) Lil Nas X ma history Wednday night at the 53rd CMA Awards when he beme the first openly gay black mician to take home a w om the Country Mic h “Old Town Road, ” a llaboratn wh veteran untry sger Billy Ray Cys, was named the mil event of the year.

LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE

Country sgers Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both of whom are whe and openly gay, shared the 2014 song of the year CMA Award wh Kacey Mgrav for “Follow Your Arrow. 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.

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. 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).

21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

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.