Rappers Who Have Come Out As Gay

Contents:

• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• GAYHIPHOP
• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

I disvered queer rap at some pot between early and late puberty when I found a gym-bodied whe gay man named Cazwell, dancg his unrwear on LOGO. Related: Billy Porter says ‘hugely, vlently homophobic’ mic dtry sabotaged his early reer.

For a long time, seemed like Black gay hip-hop was doomed to the niche, unrground environments, that formed . I didn’t believe that a gay Black man uld fe hip-hop wh untry and take his song to number one. Back 2004, when Deep Dickollective released The Famo Outlaw League of Proto-Negro, beme one of Out magaze’s Top Ten Gay Albums, was still normal to hear a gay slur a mastream rap song.

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Kev Abstract’s livered a passnate love story om the heart of a suburban gay Black boy Amerin Boyiend, and unleashed a more raw, sexual si of himself after formg Brockhampton — a team of like-md dividuals who’ve risen to cril acclaim mastream magaz as the Far and Rollg Stone. 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. 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).

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

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. 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.

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

"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.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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. Mykki Blan told Pl that his father knew he was gay sce he was 3 years old, though he didn't e out publicly till much later.