The cisn of the avowedly heterosexual rapper Lil B to name his new album I'm Gay has thkg about the history of the tersectn between gay culture and hip-hop.
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CAN HIP-HOP HANDLE 'I'M GAY?'
He has prevly scribed his experience on the show as a difficult one, sayg he felt that he had been ma to feel “I wasn’t gay enough, I wasn’t straight enough, I wasn’t man enough, I wasn’t black enough”. Today's mic scene isn't very receptive to openly gay male performers; and the biz is exceptnally ld when to pudgy, black, flamboyant Amerin Idol nttant, Jab Lk, isn't gay - he's certaly a close nner up. Personally, I don't have a problem wh Lk's womanly mannerisms, but there are a lot of people, gay and straight, who are turned off by the sger's girlie posturg and Diva hand gtur.
While dog rearch for this article, I stumbled across a gay webse featurg vio of Lk's A. Marv Gaye, What’s Gog On.
Black, tall, openly gay, and androgyno, he didn’t nform to any social normative, and this album is no parture om that. When I cid to addrs the mors that Amerin Idol’s sole black nttant might be homosexual, and uld possibly be kicked off the show bee of his “soft” mannerism, I had no ia my article would be read 6, 297 tim and untg.