BROCKHAMPTON Relnch "Gay" Clothg Collectn | Hypebeast

Contents:

• A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM
• BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY
• BROCKHAMPTON RELNCH THEIR ‘GAY’ CLOTHG COLLECTN AT ZUMIEZ

A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM

How many members of Brockhampton are actually gay? We all know Kev is for sure, but how many members, total, are actually gay?

It’s a historic acplishment for a Rap group wh an openly gay member.

BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY

Now That Gay Marriage Is Legal Every State, Will Hip-Hop End Its Homophobia?

“My goal is jt to normalize , ” he says of rappg about beg gay. In orr to make a change, I have to exist a tradnally homophobic space such as Hip-Hop.

Though Hip-Hop is not a plete stranger to varyg gre of sexual orientatn, Kev is certaly the most visible and mercially succsful gay rapper the culture has seen. Acrdg to Gallup, the timate of LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr) populatn the Uned Stat rose to 4. Kev Abstract was behd a microphone a rerdg stud the first time he ever said out loud that he was gay.

BROCKHAMPTON RELNCH THEIR ‘GAY’ CLOTHG COLLECTN AT ZUMIEZ

“Can't tell my mother I'm gay / The harst part of my day is wishg I was fuckg straight / Life uld be so fuckg easy, man, ” he sgs on the track. ” Abstract formed what would eventually bee BROCKHAMPTON at 13 years old, spawng an rap group and art llective unlike anythg precedg CreightonIn a world where you n unt the number of Black, gay rappers on one hand, Abstract stepped—purposefully or not—to the sho of role mol when he began makg mic. Growg up a Mormon hoehold a suburb north of Hoton (then Corp Christi, then Geia for a while), Abstract didn’t have a lot of Black or gay peers or mentors to look to.

“Why you always rap about beg gay? “‘Cse not enough n***** rap and be gay!