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Contents:

• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• ‘CHOZEN’ IS FX’S NEW ANIMATED GAY WHE RAPPER – PREMIERE
• KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
• GAY WHE RAPPER JACK DANIEL & BLACK FEMALE RAPPER JAYDA PK CREATE HISTORY WH NEW SGLE “2 WAYS”
• RAPPER BLUEFACE ACC HIS 6-YEAR-OLD SON OF BEG GAY BEE HE IGNORED WOMEN DANCG BIKIS
• 'CHOZEN' ON FXX: ANIMATED COMEDY ABOUT GAY WHE RAPPER IS NETWORK'S FIRST ORIGAL SERI
• FX SPOFF CHANNEL FXX GREENLIGHTS GAY WHE RAPPER ANIMATED COMEDY ‘CHOZEN,’ FROM THE PRODUCERS OF ‘ARCHER’ AND ‘EASTBOUND AND DOWN’
• CARTOON ABOUT GAY WHE RAPPER TO PREMIERE ON FX
• [WATCH] DJ AKAMIKS CLAIMS DOWN LOW GAY RAPPERS ARE SLEEPG WH MIC EXECUTIV

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

"That scene don't take place until the third episo of FX's new animated seri about "the first gay, whe, animated rapper, " but by then, 's already clear that Chozen has been chosen to wake people up to their own hypocrisy.

The re plot of Chozen is about an ex-n rapper (voiced by Saturday Night Live's Bobby Moynihan) tryg to reclaim the fame his nemis, Phantasm (Method Man), stole om character easily lends himself to predictable homophobic slurs and sight gags. It's impossible to overlook that Chozen's a bearish gay man wh a b of a kky edge (he gets nipple piercgs the first episo), a c sense of humor, and a taste for appropriate behavr--cludg hardre sex, hardre dgs, and lots and lots of alhol. He has no hibns (cludg fartg, a first for a gay character, we thk) and, que rehgly, feels no prsure to hi his sexualy and personaly.

‘CHOZEN’ IS FX’S NEW ANIMATED GAY WHE RAPPER – PREMIERE

He don't shy away om beg open his mic about his sexualy and sex life, which isn't unmon for straight artists to do hip hop mic, but not necsarily for a gay artist. He told Bra's iNews that homophobia isn't jt a thg hip hop. "Sure, every genre of mic has people who are homophobic ...

KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE

We saw when hip-hop heavyweight Emem peppered "Rap God" wh anti-gay slurs, spe claimg he had no problem wh homosexualy.

We saw Snoop Dogg's famo 2013 terview wh The Guardian, when the "G and Juice" rapper claimed, "[Homosexualy is] acceptable the sgg world, but the rap world I don't know if will ever be acceptable bee rap is so mascule. Though the hip-hop muny is jt begng to accept queerns, the openly gay rappers are bravely pavg the way. Odd Future has long been cricized for s homophobic lyrics, so much so that the band was booted om Atralia's massive Big Day Out ftival 2011, acrdg to Billboard.

GAY WHE RAPPER JACK DANIEL & BLACK FEMALE RAPPER JAYDA PK CREATE HISTORY WH NEW SGLE “2 WAYS”

In Ocean's letter, which was origally meant to be clud the "Channel Orange" ler not, the rapper spoke about havg his first gay romance at the age of 19. "I cid to do bee I wish I had someone like that [an openly gay female artist] while I was g up, " she told LA Weekly. Nohels, the Odd Future DJ wasn't exactly accepted to the gay muny, particularly nsirg Odd Future's ntroversial history (Tyler the Creator the word "f****t" 200 tim on "Gobl" alone).

RAPPER BLUEFACE ACC HIS 6-YEAR-OLD SON OF BEG GAY BEE HE IGNORED WOMEN DANCG BIKIS

1 but on the Billboard 200, and a multi-ln dollar rerd al wh RCA, which ontman Kev Abstract claimed was gog to help them ph their "gay agenda.

"I'd see negative ments and fet [beg gay] was a big al to some people, that some people hadn't heard before, " he told ShortList. Sheran has sce parted ways wh Drake, who helped him nab a Grammy nomatn, but he ma an even bigger impact on his own when he me out as gay on Twter 2017. And sce y'all love breakg news, here's some old news to break, I'm gay.

By 2015, the rapper felt like people still didn't get the ht and took to Twter to air her grievanc followg an onslght of accatns claimg she was homophobic.

'CHOZEN' ON FXX: ANIMATED COMEDY ABOUT GAY WHE RAPPER IS NETWORK'S FIRST ORIGAL SERI

"Jt give the Azealia Banks is a homophobe thg a rt bee I'm not. "I want to create mic that n be played every gay club all over the world bee those are my people.

FX SPOFF CHANNEL FXX GREENLIGHTS GAY WHE RAPPER ANIMATED COMEDY ‘CHOZEN,’ FROM THE PRODUCERS OF ‘ARCHER’ AND ‘EASTBOUND AND DOWN’

However, her work still feels radil rather than regrsive, bee Young MA is one of the few outspokenly gay members of the greater hip-hop muny. The star knew she was gay sce her first year of school, but nied to her mother until she me out — to the support of her fay — when she was 18 years old.

CARTOON ABOUT GAY WHE RAPPER TO PREMIERE ON FX

"There's a lot of rappers out there, a lot of gay girls exprsg themselv; I'm not the first to say , I'm not the first to rap about , " she told The Guardian. It's kd of sad that those few who do e out get so much attentn bee they are gay, rather than bee of their mic.

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

Mykki Blan told Pl that his father knew he was gay sce he was 3 years old, though he didn't e out publicly till much later. When he told the world he was gay, Blan also revealed he was HIV posive.

He admted to "BBC Breakfast" that he didn't feel like homosexualy was "accepted eher the untry [or] hip-hop muny, " but he hoped fans would "feel fortable" wh . Da Brat ced pervasive homophobia the '90s for her cisn not to e out earlier. " Cak is gay and discsed his g out story a vio for Billboard.