Anti-gay bigotry is on the fensive hip-hop right now.
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CHAPPELLE’S ‘CLOSER’: DABABY NCELED FOR OFFENDG GAYS BUT NOT KILLG MAN
The rapper is facg cricism for makg disparagg ments about gay people and people livg wh HIV/AIDS. * is dababy gay *
After seeg the onle backlash to rapper DaBaby’s recent homophobic and misogynistic onstage remarks, Bugz Gutta was “shocked and grateful”. Born William Bailey, the up-and-g New York MC, a proudly out black gay man, is still adjtg to such posive out.
DaBaby's rant at Rollg Loud Miami about gay men wh AIDS has gotten him nceled at Lollapolooza, the Governors Ball and other ncerts. * is dababy gay *
’ But go back to self-hate and self-worth the gay muny, and unrstandg ’s not OK for anyone to have a big platform and say the thgs. Born Joseph Lee, the Las Vegas MC is wily nsired to be a queer rap pneer for spearheadg the HomoRevolutn tour 2007.
DaBaby openly went on an anti-gay and sexist diatribe durg his set at Rollg Loud, and 's not even the only ntroversy he stirred up. * is dababy gay *
He took lyril aim, on his 2006 album Asslt Wh a Deadlee Weapon, at homophobic l by Emem, DMX and other famo MCs, and his ndid bars about stgglg and triumphg as an openly gay rapper have garnered plenty of praise. Instead, some hip-hop elrs like TI and Boosie have voiced their support for DaBaby, the latter dog so a homophobic Instagram rant of his Brei’Yon. The latter featur prison mat sportg pk uniforms a reclamatn of how numero rcerated gay men have been forced to wear that lour, before subsequent shamg or even segregatn.
Montero meanwhile beme stantly famo for teamg homoerotic imagery wh Biblil referenc. Twenty years after his producer told him he was s ahead of his time, and after shock jock Howard Stern told him followg an terview “I love what you’re dog, but you have to learn to make money dog ”, Deadlee is thrilled to fally see a gay rapper le the charts and boost the muny’s visibily.
* is dababy gay *
Social media abounds wh gay, lbian, trans and non-bary MCs postg both dazzlgly cematic mic vios, and songs that are pellg enough to let listeners of all strip of them are poised to surge to the mastream. It don’t matter if you are male, female, gay and straight.
Backxwash – a Zambian-Canadian transgenr rapper who won Canada’s Mercury-equivalent Polaris prize 2020 – cheekily tweeted: “DaBaby jt emailed me and asked if we n do Stan at the Grammys” reference to Emem’s answerg charg of homophobia by performg wh Elton yet for now, Lil Nas X remas the rare openly queer rapper wh major crossover succs.
Others have stggled, such as iLoveMakonnen, who uldn’t match his Drake-assisted 2014 h Tuday: “It’s hard to be out genr where beg gay, or exprsg your sexualy, is owned upon, ” he told the LA Tim 2019. ”Bugz Gutta says he is ntent to face down margalisatn and backlash for the time beg, though, the hope that “when six and seven-year-olds who are gay and bi and trans reach a certa age and want to be the entertament dtry, will be different for them.