30 Bt Gay Rappers (LGBTQ+ Hip-Hop Artists)

Contents:

• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
• LGBTQUTNNAIRE: GET TO KNOW KIDD KENN, THE RISG GAY RAPPER READY TO CHANGE HIP-HOP
• THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM

30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)

Kev Abstract | Miserable Ameri | Kev is an openly gay rapper, origally om Texas but now based California. While other genr, gay sgers like Elton John and Sam Smh have been phed by labels, rappers that are gay are vastly outnumbered by their straight unterparts.

Keep readg for some of the top gay rappers the dtry. Related: How a mic vio about a gay teen may have saved hundreds of liv.

Homophobia Hip-Hop.

21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

In a 2005 terview wh SPIN, 50 Cent stated that homosexualy is taboo hip-hop: “In hip-hop, there’s (sic) certa standards of thgs you n’t do. Beg gay isn’t ol – ’s not what the mic is based on. There’s always been nflict at the center of hip-hop, bee ’s all about which guy has the petive edge, and you n’t be that aggrsive if you’re gay.

Wh this mdset, ’s no wonr that homophobic language hip-hop has been treated by so many rappers as an easy way to prove their masculy. In many stanc, hip-hop artists have fend their e of anti-gay language, claimg as a generic sult.

Emem, who famoly the slur “f*****t” multiple songs, claimed a Rollg Stone terview that he never equated the term wh homosexualy, but “[i]t was more like llg someone a b**** or a punk or a******. Pop star Lil Nas X me out as gay durg Pri Month 2019 while his song “Old Town Road” was number one on the Billboard Hot 100, tellg his fans “efore this month ends, I want y’all to listen closely to c7osure” wh a rabow emoji. One of the most well-known gay female rappers Ameri, Harlem-born Azealia Banks intifi wh the bisexual label.

LGBTQUTNNAIRE: GET TO KNOW KIDD KENN, THE RISG GAY RAPPER READY TO CHANGE HIP-HOP

Still, Banks’ outspokenns onle go both ways, as the bisexual artist has also ed her platform to ll out transphobia and homophobia.

” Sce then, the artist has released an album lled Hedonism, as well as several extend plays and mixtap characterized by quickfire rap, aggrsn, and unabashed gay eroticism. The artist’s name ntas a nod to gay slang, as he noted, “[i]n the gay muny, your backsi is lled your k, and I have a lot of that… [w]hen I thk about ke, I thk sweet, mpy and edible, which is one si of me. The artist has spoken out agast allegedly homophobic treatment after beg arrted Portugal and posted solidary wh Rsia’s LGBTQ muny after news of a police raid on a Mosw venue where Blan was schled to perform.

Though he never explicly intified wh a gay or bisexual label, sger and rapper Frank Ocean ma breakg news after he posted a letter on Tumblr 2012 talkg about his “first love” wh another boy that the rapper met early his life. Wh the movement toward clivy the world hip-hop scene, we n hopefully look forward to more lbian and gay rappers 2022.

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

So I've been watchg a uple of nspiracy vios "provg" there's a secret gay agenda hip hop and Hollywood, and that rappers/celebri om old and new get to the dtry by dog gay stuff or allegedly beg the closet, and rappers nowadays drsg feme are further phg said agenda. Ah y, a genre that has been notorly homophobic is phg a gay agenda.

It sounds like people jt n't stand gay people existg or somethg. Pl kda impli gay ppl n't be succsful entertament whout dog some creepy "behd closed doors" sh.

As someone who is black, lot of the viewpots are rooted how the black muny has always been PAINFULLY unacceptg, pecially towards gay ppl.