Lil Nas X Says He Is No Longer Gay After Losg At Grammys - AllHipHop

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• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• LIL NAS X ADDRS GAY REVELATN BACKLASH
• LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
• LIL NAS X RELLS FAY'S HEARTBREAKG REACTN TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X ADMS HE TRIED TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
• THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
• 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY

LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM

Lil Nas X is gettg praise for how he handled a nversatn about homosexualy wh edian Kev Hart. Before the rapper uld rpond, Hart – who stepped down om hostg the Osrs 2018 after homophobic tweets he’d ma years earlier rurfaced – terjected. “He said he was gay, ” Hart said.

“Homosexualy, gay people, ” Lil Nas said.

LIL NAS X ADDRS GAY REVELATN BACKLASH

Lil Nas posted a seri of tweets on the last day of Pri month, where he tend to share wh his followers that he intifi as gay. A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. Media ptn, Lil Nas X told BBC Breakfast he felt like he was "openg doors for more people"US rapper Lil Nas X has revealed he has experienced a backlash on social media sce postg cryptic hts on Twter that he is gay.

Not dog what I want to do, " he said he hoped his fans would "feel fortable" but admted homosexualy was "not really accepted eher the untry [or] hip-hop muni" Nas X has enjoyed huge succs wh his unty-rap crossover h Old Town Road, which topped the UK sgl chart song beme a viral h but was ntroversially removed om Billboard's untry chart bee did "not embrace enough elements of today's untry mic" rapper took to the stage at Glastonbury at the weekend to perform Old Town Road wh Miley Cys and her father Billy Ray. "Speakg on BBC Breakfast on Friday, Lil Nas X said he didn't "have anythg to hi" and had "kd of revealed, you know, that I am gay".

I am now no longer gay! His ment uld be a reference to the fact that he won two Grammy Awards for the song "Old Town Road" before he had publicly e out as gay.

LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS

The mic ftival Lollapalooza dropped rapper DaBaby om s lp after he ma homophobic remarks.

And so he's no stranger to the variety of out that queer people are often told by homophob or, you know, like, quote, unquote, "people who really re" about what might happen to him - whether he go to hell, whether he'll go to jail or he'll do this, that and the third.

LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS

It's almost like he's sayg, homophob don't actually have that great of an imagatn, and I do. Did you get the sense that the fa of beg imperv to all the homophobia and hatred - that ever drops?

LIL NAS X RELLS FAY'S HEARTBREAKG REACTN TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY

You seem to only rpect gay artists when the gay part is tucked away.

LIL NAS X ADMS HE TRIED TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY

- where he is a gay pop star who's e out at the height of his fame or - you know, for all we know, he uld somehow get even bigger. We have so many gay pop stars but so few openly gay pop stars and even fewer gay pop stars who are explicly sexual. But what Lil Nas X do is he mak gay sex jt as part of his entire persona as a, you know, name lerally any straight pop star ever.

Or perhaps, another profound moment that to md uld be when the superstar me out as gay to his Christian parents durg Pri Month last year. Touchg on the sensive topic, the 21-year-old revealed his father “said some very Christian thgs, ” like that his homosexualy “uld be the vil temptg” him. Kev Wter/Getty Imag for iHeartMediaPublished on: Oct 1, 2019, 11:54 AM PDTLil Nas X recently sat down wh CBS This Morng’s Gayle Kg to talk about g out as gay earlier this year.

LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”

‘Cse, of urse, somebody who’s listeng to me school right now, ’s like, ‘You gay ’e you’re listeng to him. "After the "Old Town Road" rapper explaed that he grew up "to hate this s---, " reference to beg gay, edian Kev Hart terjected and asked Nas said that "if you're really om the hood, you know, " and add that he wanted to show that "the ol du wh the song on top of everythg" g out meant "don't really matter.

Lil Nas X got ndid about why he chose to e out as gay on an episo of HBO's "The Shop" — and his fans have taken to Twter to fend the talk show, which is executive produced by NBA superstar LeBron Jam, Lil Nas was joed by a few guts cludg actor and edian Kev Hart and the show's -creator Pl Rivera.

THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM

"Homosexualy, gay people, " Lil Nas said.

'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY

—Nicki_Nicki_Nicki (@All_NickiMaj) September 4, 2019—David (@Dreams_on_Paper) September 4, 2019—Commanr Slay (@natayiu) September 4, 2019Hart, who apologized for homophobic jok he ma durg his stand-ups earlier this year, ma a pot to tell Lil Nas that " no way, shape or form" he had to fend who he is (a part that wasn't the clip shared to Twter). However, some people on Twter thought the edian me on too strong, pecially due to his prev homophobic jok. ”Related Vio:As a Black gay mician, Nas is well aware that he’s disptg the image most people attribute to succsful artists hip-hop.

“[In the dtry] ’s always been, ‘OK, you’re gay, this needs to be sanized. ’… Gay, but let’s not clu anythg sexual.

LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY

It’s like, ‘Be gay whout beg gay. There’s gog to be so many gay rappers. ”While Nas said he's found a fay on social media, he’s also experienced firsthand the bnt of homophobia onle.