The Game Wants Gay Rappers to Come Out, But Spreads Downlow Myth - Colorl

Contents:

• [WATCH] DJ AKAMIKS CLAIMS DOWN LOW GAY RAPPERS ARE SLEEPG WH MIC EXECUTIV
• 14 CELEBRY MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY
• GUS WHO'S GAY HIP-HOP
• EXPOSG HIP-HOP'S GAY SUBCULTURE
•  P DIDDY GAY RAPPER CRYPTIC TWEET LIL NAS X BET AWARDS 2021 PERFORMANCE MONTERO KISS ON STAGE
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
• THE GAY HIP HOP BOOK, REVEALED: ACTORS, RAPPERS, AND A 'MEGASTAR'
• DOWN LOW DETECTIVE EXPOS GAY PASTORS ON FACEBOOK

[WATCH] DJ AKAMIKS CLAIMS DOWN LOW GAY RAPPERS ARE SLEEPG WH MIC EXECUTIV

” He go on to suate the tth to the mor of a “gay mafia” the entertament world, addg, “I don’t want to get randomly killed. He’s sce clapped back at a fan on IG g a homophobic slur.

Wrers at South Park joked about Kanye beg a “gay fish” 2013 for lghs. He killed Biggie, he’s the Chairman of the Illumati and he’s gay. It’s been a long nng mor that Rsell Simmons is gay and Kimora Lee was his “beard” through all.

He’s said he don’t “nsir himself gay” for engagg sex wh a male. Comedian Katt Williams Called the actor Gay and alleged he’s slept wh his protegé. Will has been seen out about at gay clubs Wt Hollywood sce his Frh Prce days.

14 CELEBRY MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY

Terrance Dean, thor of the new memoir Hidg Hip Hop: On the Down Low the Entertament Indtry — om Mic to Hollywood has had celebry blogs a mi-enzy sce Simon and Schter announced last year that he would release a book dishg about closeted gays the entertament dtry. n-s — often timate — wh famo gay men hidg out the film, televisn and mic worlds.

I wrote wh the tentn of hopg to provi a voice for not only myself but a lot of people who are the dtry or are stgglg wh their sexualy but also those people who are down-low men or gay men who are lookg to get to the bs and they n't. There's down-low, there's down-low gay and there's gay.

What I nsir to be the closet is someone who I would ll a down-low gay man. He has relatnships wh both men and women but he would never intify his sexualy as that of a gay man bee he don't see the act of what he's dog as that of beg gay.

GUS WHO'S GAY HIP-HOP

So he don't see himself as beg gay. If you ask him, he would never adm to beg gay. In the book you suggt that whe gays are more accepted than gays of lor the dtry, so what impact has that had on you?

I thk the bs has now bee more receptive bee there is an abundance of gay men the dtry, and jt seems to be a natural place for gays for a number of reasons: 's a very creative atmosphere, 's a very eeg atmosphere, 's a very open and liberal atmosphere. Even if [a person] is not gay, but bee a iend is, that person will stop associatg wh them bee they don't want people to thk that's what they do.

You make lots of referenc to how you didn't really qutn your sexualy until after you were molted, so what would you say to those who thk that beg gay is a choice?

EXPOSG HIP-HOP'S GAY SUBCULTURE

I ed to thk like that until I started meetg more and more gay men and havg real, tense dialogue wh them and I realized that they were naturally born that way, they had no sire to be wh a woman, they always knew that they were attracted to men. In a hood sweatshirt and baggy jeans, Terrance Dean don't give off "gay" on first sight—and he has worked hard to prent himself that way.

When somebody asked if he was gay recently, he blurted out "no" whout even Dean is gog to have a hard time foolg anyone much longer. His new book, "Hidg Hip-Hop: On the Down Low the Entertament Indtry, " is a tale of life si Hollywood's secret gay subculture, and hip-hop's place wh that world. Though don't name nam, the memoir is a tailed (and graphic) acunt of down-low life, gay sex parti and secret societi, where some of hip-hop's major artists openly sleep wh men, only to go home to their wiv and girliends at night's end.

Sure, there's always a story kickg around about homosexualy and the mic dtry; mors have swirled around rappers sce the '70s and '80s.

 P DIDDY GAY RAPPER CRYPTIC TWEET LIL NAS X BET AWARDS 2021 PERFORMANCE MONTERO KISS ON STAGE

But acrdg to Dean, and a number of other dtry sirs, who's gay and who's straight (or rather, who is "down low"; DL brothers don't intify as "gay") is mon knowledge.

Hip-hop has a long history of homophobia, much of which is tied up wh the powerful black church. ("I remember the pastor at my church sayg 'Homosexualy is a s! Beg gay is nsired soft, sissy—a putdown that's won emcee battl for years.

Adds Tim'm Wt, an openly gay Bay Area rapper and activist, "Straightns is as cly affixed to skill hip-hop as the microphone.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

When filmmaker Byron Hurt asked Bta Rhym about homosexualy hip-hop for a 2006 documentary on the subject, the rapper was so offend he walked out—on mera. "The very nature of the hip-hop beast has homophobia imbedd , " says Fred Mwangaguhunga, the edor of, a black-foced celebry is why hip-hop's gay culture is so shroud silence, wh trite measur taken to keep that way. (In 1998, when Hot 97 shock jock Wendy Williams hted that a major New York rapper was gay, she was booted om the statn.

"As Dean pots out, the irony about gay rappers is that hip-hop was found on the notn of speakg tth; was the voice of an urban unrclass largely hidn om the mastream. "It was about beg real, " says Los Angel rapper Deadlee (real name Joseph Lee), who is openly gay—do-rag, tattoos, hardre lyrics and all.

21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

But Deadlee is part of a growg movement of gay rappers who make up the world of "homohop, " a genre he hop will eventually cross over to the mastream. Wh more than 50 regnized homohop artists on the Web se, many are tourg at home and abroad.

"There's likely a gay unterpart to every 'brand' of hip-hop the mastream, " says Tim'm Wt, who is the founr of the Oakland-based gay rap group, Deep Dickollective. )Mastream acceptance of a gay rapper would fely require a paradigm shift, says Wt. "Hip-hop is about tellg stori of stggle and life, and I thk there's a real story to tell of urban, gay youth.

THE GAY HIP HOP BOOK, REVEALED: ACTORS, RAPPERS, AND A 'MEGASTAR'

Milan Christopher shot to fame thanks to “Love & Hip Hop Hollywood” as one of the few openly gay men the hip-hop scene.

Christopher was then asked if he thks there should be more gay rappers, to which he replied, “There is a lot of gay rappers, there should be more out gay rappers. “Out of a hundred, I thk about 60 are gay guaranteed, if not more.

DOWN LOW DETECTIVE EXPOS GAY PASTORS ON FACEBOOK

Well, what do you thk of Christopher’s claims on gay and bisexual men the rap dtry? Is P Diddy gay? The latter wrapped up his performance wh a passnate smooch wh a male backup dancer and Diddy’s cryptic tweet regardg the same backfired at him as the social media started speculatg he was gay.

There have been mors the past of Diddy beg gay and has also faced the heat for not beg open about . ” Twter ers did not waste any time to label him a homosexual and asked him to e out of the closet.

The mors of Diddy beg gay also did the rounds on the Inter when Diddy hopped on a verse of rapper Blood Sugar’s 2018 song lled ‘Hope’.