Wh hs like 'Indtry Baby' and the upg release of album 'Montero,' Lil Nas X emerg as an empowered gay man revolutnizg mic.
Contents:
- LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
- LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
- LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY WORLD PRI POST: 'I THOUGHT I MA IT OBV'
- LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
- LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY
- 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
- HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
Lil Nas X beme the first openly gay black mician to w at the Country Mic Assn. Awards for his h "Old Town Road." * lil naz x gay *
Lil Nas X is gettg praise for how he handled a nversatn about homosexualy wh edian Kev Hart. Before the rapper uld rpond, Hart – who stepped down om hostg the Osrs 2018 after homophobic tweets he’d ma years earlier rurfaced – terjected.
“He said he was gay, ” Hart said. “Homosexualy, gay people, ” Lil Nas said. Lil Nas posted a seri of tweets on the last day of Pri month, where he tend to share wh his followers that he intifi as gay.
A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. The mic ftival Lollapalooza dropped rapper DaBaby om s lp after he ma homophobic remarks. And so he's no stranger to the variety of out that queer people are often told by homophob or, you know, like, quote, unquote, "people who really re" about what might happen to him - whether he go to hell, whether he'll go to jail or he'll do this, that and the third.
LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
From Tyler, the Creator to Lil Nas X, hip-hop has never had so many stars who intify as gay or bisexual. Is this a blip or a turng pot? * lil naz x gay *
It's almost like he's sayg, homophob don't actually have that great of an imagatn, and I do.
Did you get the sense that the fa of beg imperv to all the homophobia and hatred - that ever drops? You seem to only rpect gay artists when the gay part is tucked away. - where he is a gay pop star who's e out at the height of his fame or - you know, for all we know, he uld somehow get even bigger.
LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY WORLD PRI POST: 'I THOUGHT I MA IT OBV'
Rapper Lil Nas X wr a note to his 14-year-old self about g out as gay. * lil naz x gay *
We have so many gay pop stars but so few openly gay pop stars and even fewer gay pop stars who are explicly sexual. But what Lil Nas X do is he mak gay sex jt as part of his entire persona as a, you know, name lerally any straight pop star ever. Lil Nas X me out as gay June 2019.
LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
"Old Town Road" sger Lil Nas X appears to e out as gay, after the fd between Nicki Maj and Cardi B igned mors about his sexualy * lil naz x gay *
But the fact that a rap-aligned gay Black artist — let alone one who’s also such a untry fan that he vered Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” — uld pull this off atop the charts was startlg. Hip-hop artists like Young Thug sometim toyed wh wearg drs to illtrate their ee spirs, but Lil Nas X ma a not-obv choice to put gay love and sire at the center of his craft. ’ If a gay person is playg wh Satanic them, you n’t not thk of Kenh Anger and Satan as a liberator, ” said Malamet, a wrer and podster on the history of queer genre and horror films.
” Through his chart-toppg songs, he explor trop – longg, dreams and dreams, pe – an explic manner, embracg his sir as a gay Black man. “I feel like that’s really important for reprentatn general, and this is gonna open more doors for one day when somebody says this, ’s like, ‘Oh, that person said that and I didn’t thk about , ’ ” Lil Nas X said earlier this year of his ambn to normalize gay sex, to vanquish mastream squeamishns about .
The clip for “Montero” – the full name nods to the 2007 gay g-of-age novel and s breathtakg 2017 film adaptatn – is chockablock wh referenc to the Bible.
LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY
After the show, Lil Nas X snaps the vil’s neck and dons his horns – a lic subversn, a rollickg rebe of the hellfire that gay people are often promised: No weapon that is formed agast thee shall prosper, Lil Nas X seems to say, wh a wk. At night, he asks that God take away his gay thoughts. (Matt Wkelmeyer / Getty Imag) Lil Nas X ma history Wednday night at the 53rd CMA Awards when he beme the first openly gay black mician to take home a w om the Country Mic h “Old Town Road, ” a llaboratn wh veteran untry sger Billy Ray Cys, was named the mil event of the year.
'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
14, 2019An earlier versn of this article rrectly stated that Lil Nas X was the first openly gay artist to w a CMA Award.
He is the first openly gay black artist to do so. Country sgers Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both of whom are whe and openly gay, shared the 2014 song of the year CMA Award wh Kacey Mgrav for “Follow Your Arrow. ”Overnight, the 20-year-old Atlanta native — born Montero Lamar Hill — beme the biggt gay pop star the world.
HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR
”“It’s hard to be out genr where beg gay, or exprsg your sexualy, is owned upon, ” add platum rapper and sger iLoveMakonnen, born Makonnen Sheran, who rose to fame as a protégé of Drake and me out as gay 2017. ”Before the viral sensatn of “Old Town Road” turned Hill to a pop star and gay in, hip-hop was already reachg a turng pot s clivy, as more young black men explorg sexualy and terrogatg masculy their work are gettg mastream attentn. ) Kev Abstract, founr of hip-hop llective Brockhampton, me out as gay 2016.
Rap culture has always been powered by unbridled machismo, and one would be hard prsed to not fd a gay slur embedd the lyrics of any of the genre’s most famo archects.