Followg the Uned Stat Supreme Court lgs on two separate gay marriage issu, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' gay equaly anthem "Same Love" jumps to the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 sgl chart this week.
Contents:
- MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS ADDRS SEXUALY: “FE, WE'RE GAY!”
- IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
- MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS’ GAY EQUALY ANTHEM HS TOP 20 ON HOT 100
- IS RYAN LEWIS GAY?
- MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM 'SAME LOVE' WS AT MTV VMAS
MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS ADDRS SEXUALY: “FE, WE'RE GAY!”
Ryan Lewis bgraphy wh personal life (affair, girliend , Gay), married . A llectn of facts wh age. * is ryan lewis gay *
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Dpe beg the odd on out, Macklemore and Lewis have ma a se for their recent succs wh a strg of hont, challengg songs like “Wgs, ” an o to the sneakerhead and the unrelentg nsumerist culture that engulfs him; “Othersi, ” a Red Hot Chili Peppers-samplg rap ballad tailg a hard-fought return to sobriety; and most recently, “Same Love, ” a soft and betiful statement on sexualy, homophobia, and gay rights. A day before the release of The Heist, Macklemore’s but LP wh producer Ryan Lewis, we spoke wh him about his fah, gay marriage, and rappg for 10, 000 hours.
BUYANOVSKY: “Same Love” has been gettg a lot of attentn recently—did you choose to release now bee of how agile a time is for gay rights, wh the electn g up?
IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
How a straight whe rapper om Seattle wrote hip-hop’s first gay anthem. * is ryan lewis gay *
Shortly after Obama me out support of gay marriage. terview, gay, equaly, same love, lgbt, llaboratn, macklemore, ryan lewis, chelsea handler, chelsea lately, london, newssk. If you type Macklemore, the [first Google search choice] is 'is Macklmore gay?
Macklemore then explaed that he first met Lewis on social workg se Myspace and after a b of jtg om host Chelsea Handler, he threw his hands up and joked: "Fe, we’re gay! At first glance, one uld take Macklemore (real name: Ben Haggerty) for the natn's first mastream gay rapper.
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS’ GAY EQUALY ANTHEM HS TOP 20 ON HOT 100
"Same Love" rapper Macklemore said he is not gay, spe what Inter mors might lead people to believe. * is ryan lewis gay *
" No, he's not gay. ) At one pot time, though, he certaly thought he might be gay.
"I knew I wanted to wre a song about gay rights, about marriage equaly, and about homophobia hip-hop, but I didn't know how to do , " he says. "I tried, at first, wrg om the perspective of a gay, bullied kid.
IS RYAN LEWIS GAY?
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The rult was an acunt of Macklemore's stggle wh his own sexualy as a he and Lewis grew up surround by gay adults. Lewis's uncle is gay and has been livg wh HIV for 30 years.
"Growg up wh a gay uncle and havg him be a huge part of our fay -- I don't thk my parents' outlook would be the same if weren't for him, " Lewis says. " Macklemore was raised Capol Hill, a liberal, gay-iendly district of Seattle. The men clost to him -- his uncle Johnny and his godfather -- are gay.
"Where I grew up, there were huge gay pri paras ls than a e away om me, " Macklemore says.
MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM 'SAME LOVE' WS AT MTV VMAS
"My dad's bt iend was gay. My barber was gay.
My uncl owned this rtrant that was a huge mag for the gay muny. My whole upbrgg was around gay people. "But a major part of that nversatn clus the qutn of why a uple of straight whe guys are sudnly the face of gay-iendly hip-hop.
"If I was gay, I would thk hip-hop hat me" -- that's what Macklemore himself raps "Same Love. " So what do he or Lewis know about beg gay, or black, or both the world of hip-hop? "The sgle supports the ia, or at least impli that people of lor -- particularly black folks who created hip-hop -- are more homophobic than whe people and that there are no queer people who feel supported the muni, " he wr.