The rapper, who stars BBC Two’s We Are Black and Brish, me out 2020 and has been hailed as the first openly gay drill rapper.
Contents:
- WE ARE BLACK AND BRISH: GAY RAPPER MISTA STRANGE ‘NOT AAID’ TO RAP ABOUT SEXUALY AFTER G OUT
- RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- DRILL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY RAPPER MR STRANGE TALKS TOXIC MASCULY, ADVERSY AND AWARENS: “I DON’T NFORM AND I’M DOG JT FE”
- 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
- 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
- WHY GAY DRILL RAPPER CARTER THE BAND WANTS QUEER BLACK YOUTH TO ‘LIVE THEIR TTH’
WE ARE BLACK AND BRISH: GAY RAPPER MISTA STRANGE ‘NOT AAID’ TO RAP ABOUT SEXUALY AFTER G OUT
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The 22-year-old, who stars BBC Two’s We Are Black and Brish, me out 2020 and has been hailed as the first openly gay drill rapper the UK.
‘For any Black gay kid, there are challeng we face wh the Black muny regards to sexualy; attus, culture, relign, ’ he stated. ‘I fely felt that I would be more wily accepted by whe people and that’s the se for a lot of Black gay kids.
Strange said he is tired of the narrative of ‘poor old Black gay kid the rap dtry, mt be so hard for him’. Strange is keen to dispel the stereotype that gay men are feme, and admted he actually felt prsure to be ls mascule rather than more. We saw when hip-hop heavyweight Emem peppered "Rap God" wh anti-gay slurs, spe claimg he had no problem wh homosexualy.
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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.
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.
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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). 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. 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.
21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
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. "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. 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.
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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 . However, he urged gay fans to be ut when g out to homophobic parents, notg 's important to have a back-up plan if thgs go awry.
WHY GAY DRILL RAPPER CARTER THE BAND WANTS QUEER BLACK YOUTH TO ‘LIVE THEIR TTH’
NBC News noted his mic serv as a much-need opposn to a hip-hop culture where homophobic lyrics have tradnally been the norm (50 cent, famed for g the "f" word his songs, has sce apologized for past homophobia, as has Emem). "We need people who are willg to say: 'I'm gay and I don't give a f***, ' and the world will be a better place, " Cak told Attu. That year, Latifah was terviewed by Upsale (via Pri) where she was once aga asked to nfirm mors that she's gay.
" She also prevly told The New York Tim that she don't re whether people thk she's gay, but was important for her to mata a modicum of mystery around her personal life. In 2012, he revealed he is gay and once claimed to be the first rapper to e out as such, though this is disputable (Frank Ocean's g out, for stance, cid wh Y-Love's). " He highlighted the signifince of livg his tth, revealg he spent years worryg about the potential effects g out might have on his public reputatn, before ultimately ncedg that his personal happs — and the value of reprentatn as a Black gay rapper — eclipsed a need for acceptance wh the hip-hop muny.