From Tyler, the Creator to Lil Nas X, hip-hop has never had so many stars who intify as gay or bisexual. Is this a blip or a turng pot?
Contents:
- SYD: 'THE BACKLASH OM THE GAY MUNY HURT MY FEELGS'
- TYLER, THE CREATOR IS OPENLY GAY: WHO IS HIS BOYIEND?
- IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?
SYD: 'THE BACKLASH OM THE GAY MUNY HURT MY FEELGS'
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Then June 2018, Stenberg me out as gay, tellg Wonrland magaze, “I was so overe wh this profound sense of relief when I realized that I’m gay — not bi, not pan, but gay — wh a romantic love for women.
“I’m not gog to put myself that mp, or unr that tle, ” Jackson said 2014, when asked whether they were gay, straight, or bisexual. I probably feel more feme than I do mascule… but if people want to hold me up as a gay role mol, absolutely, I’m proud to be that, but I don’t feel the need to say that I’m gay to do . There was the time, a 2012 terview wh LA Weekly, that the openly gay artist qutned a number of high-profile female micians’ sexualy and said she hated the word “lbian”.
Today she still sounds feated by the reactn and says that the “backlash om the gay muny hurt my feelgs”. In 2010, they beme one of the most hyped groups around but also one of the most problematic, thanks to their homophobic slurs and csant cursg.
TYLER, THE CREATOR IS OPENLY GAY: WHO IS HIS BOYIEND?
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When Syd’s parents eventually listened to one of their tracks, they were so appalled that they kicked her out of the hoe for a few hdsight, Syd wonrs whether she, the crew’s only female, was their “get out of jail” rd when accatns of homophobia were raised.
” She is quick to nfirm that her former crew are not homophobic, somethg she follows wh a short, sharp “Hah! ”Overnight, the 20-year-old Atlanta native — born Montero Lamar Hill — beme the biggt gay pop star the world.
”“It’s hard to be out genr where beg gay, or exprsg your sexualy, is owned upon, ” add platum rapper and sger iLoveMakonnen, born Makonnen Sheran, who rose to fame as a protégé of Drake and me out as gay 2017.
IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?
”Before the viral sensatn of “Old Town Road” turned Hill to a pop star and gay in, hip-hop was already reachg a turng pot s clivy, as more young black men explorg sexualy and terrogatg masculy their work are gettg mastream attentn. ) Kev Abstract, founr of hip-hop llective Brockhampton, me out as gay 2016.
Rap culture has always been powered by unbridled machismo, and one would be hard prsed to not fd a gay slur embedd the lyrics of any of the genre’s most famo archects. In fact, an entire lexin dited to potg out disfort wh gay men has permeated rap lyrics. Slang such as “s” and “No homo” and “Pse” that e queerns as a punchle have been thrown around sually for as the old guard has been replaced wh a younger generatn unncerned wh rigid labels and unbothered by genre, today’s rap and R&B scene isn’t as exclively heteronormative as once was.
“We know folks our muny have always been religly nservative, and beg gay is still seen as taboo, ” said Ebro Darn, the global edorial head of hip-hop and R&B for Apple Mic and host of “Ebro the Morng” on New York’s Hot 97 rad statn. ”Over the past uple of years, Ocean’s former Odd Future llaborator, Tyler, the Creator, has transned om a bratty provotr who hurled gay slurs wh reckls abandon to a thoughtful nfsnalist, one who surprisgly and rather matter-of-factly raps about his own attractn to men. A diverse array of talents such as Brockhampton ontman Kev Abstract, Steve Lacy (also formerly affiliated wh Odd Future) and Skype Williams have all prented works this year that are eely crafted through a black queer his “Arizona Baby” album, -produced by Jack Antonoff (Taylor Swift), Abstract reflects on growg up gay and Corp Christi at the turn of the lennium.