Chance the Rapper Clarifi Dave Chappelle's 'Gay Jok' Comment, Involvement Black Star Le Mic Ftival

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RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

When I was growg up, was always prented as beg gay or beg a part of the LGBTQ muny was an optn — so was like, "Oh no, you're not gay [or bi], you jt need to toughen up. I'll never fet, sixth gra, a iend me out and said he was gay. He was the first kid, not jt our gra but the whole school, that I ever remember, sayg "I'm gay.

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.

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.

CHANCE THE RAPPER DEFENDS DAVE CHAPPELLE’S “GAY JOK” COMMENT IN GHANA

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.

CHANCE THE RAPPER CLARIFI DAVE CHAPPELLE'S 'GAY JOK' COMMENT, INVOLVEMENT BLACK STAR LE MIC FTIVAL

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.

CHANCE THE RAPPER CLARIFI DAVE CHAPPELLE'S 'GAY JOK' COMMENT, INVOLVEMENT BLACK STAR LE MIC FTIVAL

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.

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. When he told the world he was gay, Blan also revealed he was HIV posive.

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