Hip-Hop Artists Who Embrace Beg Gay, Lbian or Bisexual - XXL

Contents:

• GAY RAPPERS
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

GAY RAPPERS

Azealia Banks, Frank Ocean, Angel Haze, Cazwell, Brooke Candy, Big Freedia, Le1f, Mykki Blan, Cak da Killa, and too many more to mentn-- go whout sayg that gay rappers have e out onto the scene and are makg a huge impact on how rap is ma. Rap, which has e unr fire sce the begng for s apparently misogynist them, has grown richer om the cln of bisexual artists, gay artists, lbian artists, and artists of diverse genrs--and a lot of the time, 's been the very artists who have add pth and perspective to rap.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

OUT has all the newt about today's gay rappers, not to mentn gay untry sgers and other mic trends. 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. He told Bra's iNews that homophobia isn't jt a thg hip hop.

"Sure, every genre of mic has people who are homophobic ... 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.

30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)

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. 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. "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.

HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

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.

My whole life is gay. All of my iends are gay, I am bisexual....

"I want to create mic that n be played every gay club all over the world bee those are my people.

21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

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.