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Future's Gay Lyric On 'Comg Out Strong' Ded By Kodak Black

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SYD: 'THE BACKLASH OM THE GAY MUNY HURT MY FEELGS'

Syd Bent is the new darlg of pist, sensual soul. Here she explas why sgg don’t make her a ‘sger’ – and why beg gay don’t make her part of a ‘muny’ * is odd future gay *

There was the time, a 2012 terview wh LA Weekly, that the openly gay artist qutned a number of high-profile female micians’ sexualy and said she hated the word “lbian”. Today she still sounds feated by the reactn and says that the “backlash om the gay muny hurt my feelgs”. In 2010, they beme one of the most hyped groups around but also one of the most problematic, thanks to their homophobic slurs and csant cursg.

FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK

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When Syd’s parents eventually listened to one of their tracks, they were so appalled that they kicked her out of the hoe for a few hdsight, Syd wonrs whether she, the crew’s only female, was their “get out of jail” rd when accatns of homophobia were raised. ” She is quick to nfirm that her former crew are not homophobic, somethg she follows wh a short, sharp “Hah! But as the group’s only woman and only member who was openly gay (Frank Ocean has sce e out, and Tyler also appears to have done so), she was wheeled out to addrs the homophobic and misogynistic attu of some of the Odd Future artists (there were lyrics about rapg women, for example).

“In the begng was tough, pecially beg part of a group that everybody thought was homophobic, ” she says, sippg a f black ffee as she was for the vegan burger she orred (to alleviate the anxiety of tourg, she has recently given up ffee, meat, alhol and smokg).

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“Then, years later, everybody’s gay! She is often asked about beg an openly gay black woman and how radil is that she sgs romantic songs to other women. ”She do not, though, nsir herself an activist: “I don’t feel like a part of the gay muny.

I don’t really go to gay clubs.

And I don’t have any gay female iends – none that I hang out wh on a regular basis.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

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Future's Gay Lyric On 'Comg Out Strong' Ded By Kodak Black .

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