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[WATCH] DJ AKAMIKS CLAIMS DOWN LOW GAY RAPPERS ARE SLEEPG WH MIC EXECUTIV

Anti-gay bigotry is on the fensive hip-hop right now. * gay rappers exposed *

Anti-gay bigotry is on the fensive hip-hop right superstar Lil Nas X, who me out as gay 2019, has been sparrg wh people who exprs many of the logil nsistenci that unrlie homophobia. On Instagram, DaBaby then ma thgs worse by explag that he had been tryg to show that his gay fans “got class, ” unlike the “nasty … junki on the street” who get AIDS. But the reactns he’s kicked up, and some other recent velopments hip-hop, have outed bigots and unrled the gnive dissonance they live ’s speech did not mentn Lil Nas X, hip-hop’s new, openly gay superstar.

The young artist me out as gay 2019 when his sgle “Old Town Road” was on s way to beg the longt-nng No. But Lil Nas X has clearly set out to tt the bounds of such progrs, and we’re now seeg the How ‘Old Town Road’ transforms the listenerMsage-lan art such as the “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” mic vio is part of that ttg: It playfully dramatiz the way that gay people have to wrtle wh beg told they’re damned to hell.

There, he spars wh people who exprs many of the logil nsistenci that unrlie homophobia. He’s playfully shot down the notns that queerns is a morn Wtern ventn; that he promot looser sexual ethics than straight rappers do; that he acts gay for fame; that prev generatns of queer stars have stayed closeted bee of tastefulns rather than bee of reprsn; that his art turns viewers away om heterosexualy; and that femy unrm male strength. Here was classic false equivalence: Gay gyratns onstage might annoy some viewers, but they’re different om pog the exact rhetoric that ntribut to the AIDS crisis (not to mentn to the problems of prsn and suici the queer muny).

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There have been mors the past of Diddy beg gay and has also faced the heat for not beg open about * gay rappers exposed *

” He go on to suate the tth to the mor of a “gay mafia” the entertament world, addg, “I don’t want to get randomly killed. He don't shy away om beg open his mic about his sexualy and sex life, which isn't unmon for straight artists to do hip hop mic, but not necsarily for a gay artist.

We saw when hip-hop heavyweight Emem peppered "Rap God" wh anti-gay slurs, spe claimg he had no problem wh homosexualy. 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.

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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.

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"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. And sce y'all love breakg news, here's some old news to break, I'm gay.

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.

"Jt give the Azealia Banks is a homophobe thg a rt bee I'm not. "I want to create mic that n be played every gay club all over the world bee those are my people.

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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.

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