Openly gay rappers are few and far between, pecially those who are as transparent as Brockhampton's Kev Abstract.
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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? Kev Abstract was behd a microphone a rerdg stud the first time he ever said out loud that he was gay.
“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.