Rappers Who Have Come Out As Gay

Contents:

• FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• MASTREAM RAP'S GAY FUTURE IS UPON US
• IS YOUNG THUG GAY? RAPPER ADDRS MOURS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK

There are several out and proud gay rappers who are absolutely killg wh diverse, sometim hilar, sometim poignant lyrics that you should fely be vibg along to. As a queer, HIV-posive performer he sps hot fire about his diagnosis, life as a gay rapper, and anythg that to md. From gettg the club go’ up on a Tuday to partyg solo, iLoveMakonnen is a gay sger/rapper worth turng up super loud.

After seeg the onle backlash to rapper DaBaby’s recent homophobic and misogynistic onstage remarks, Bugz Gutta was “shocked and grateful”. Born William Bailey, the up-and-g New York MC, a proudly out black gay man, is still adjtg to such posive out. ’ But go back to self-hate and self-worth the gay muny, and unrstandg ’s not OK for anyone to have a big platform and say the thgs.

Born Joseph Lee, the Las Vegas MC is wily nsired to be a queer rap pneer for spearheadg the HomoRevolutn tour 2007. He took lyril aim, on his 2006 album Asslt Wh a Deadlee Weapon, at homophobic l by Emem, DMX and other famo MCs, and his ndid bars about stgglg and triumphg as an openly gay rapper have garnered plenty of praise. Instead, some hip-hop elrs like TI and Boosie have voiced their support for DaBaby, the latter dog so a homophobic Instagram rant of his Brei’Yon.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

The latter featur prison mat sportg pk uniforms a reclamatn of how numero rcerated gay men have been forced to wear that lour, before subsequent shamg or even segregatn. Montero meanwhile beme stantly famo for teamg homoerotic imagery wh Biblil referenc. Twenty years after his producer told him he was s ahead of his time, and after shock jock Howard Stern told him followg an terview “I love what you’re dog, but you have to learn to make money dog ”, Deadlee is thrilled to fally see a gay rapper le the charts and boost the muny’s visibily.

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

Social media abounds wh gay, lbian, trans and non-bary MCs postg both dazzlgly cematic mic vios, and songs that are pellg enough to let listeners of all strip of them are poised to surge to the mastream. Backxwash – a Zambian-Canadian transgenr rapper who won Canada’s Mercury-equivalent Polaris prize 2020 – cheekily tweeted: “DaBaby jt emailed me and asked if we n do Stan at the Grammys” reference to Emem’s answerg charg of homophobia by performg wh Elton yet for now, Lil Nas X remas the rare openly queer rapper wh major crossover succs. Others have stggled, such as iLoveMakonnen, who uldn’t match his Drake-assisted 2014 h Tuday: “It’s hard to be out genr where beg gay, or exprsg your sexualy, is owned upon, ” he told the LA Tim 2019.

”Bugz Gutta says he is ntent to face down margalisatn and backlash for the time beg, though, the hope that “when six and seven-year-olds who are gay and bi and trans reach a certa age and want to be the entertament dtry, will be different for them. 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.

MASTREAM RAP'S GAY FUTURE IS UPON US

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.

"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). 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.

IS YOUNG THUG GAY? RAPPER ADDRS MOURS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

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. "I want to create mic that n be played every gay club all over the world bee those are my people.

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. 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.