Kaytranada talks about his experience hip-hop sce g out as gay.
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- KAYTRANADA TALKS FAIARIZG HIMSELF WH GAY CULTURE AFTER COMG OUT: 'I HAD TO LEARN A LOT'
- KAYTRANADA, THE OUT GAY CANADIAN 2016 POLARIS PRIZE WNER, JT DROPPED THE CHILLT OF MIXTAP: LISTEN
- HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
KAYTRANADA TALKS FAIARIZG HIMSELF WH GAY CULTURE AFTER COMG OUT: 'I HAD TO LEARN A LOT'
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When Montreal-via-Hai producer KAYTRANADA me out as gay shortly before he released his but stud album 99. Here’s how the aftermath often go if you’re lovgly accepted rather than lloly rejected: You shed a massive chunk of your ternalized homophobia or transphobia; you beg speakg about your love terts or genr inty as though they’re no different om the majory; your angrit, most sponnt, distant selv distegrate as you stop wearg the mask that’s long squashed your happs. Even the cln of a “bye Felicia”—a phrase -opted om an Ice Cube film to queer culture via RuPl’s Drag Race—om one of the three featured male guts on “Vex Oh” feels queer, jt as the scriptn of an all-night sexpa wh “I roll over, I ll a pbull / I’m on top, I don’t md if we swch” sounds eply gay, even if ’s part of a verse that ends “aight ho.
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In an terview wh GQ followg his succsful sophomore album Bubba, Kaytranada sheds light on his experienc hip-hop sce g out four years ago. Dpe the rampant prence of homophobia today’s hip-hop mic, the producer said ’s been spirg to see artists like Lil Nas X and Brockhampton fd their own lan and change attus about gay culture. “Like, a rapper who has probably said homophobic stuff, but jt seeg them balancg each other and sgg their song?
KAYTRANADA, THE OUT GAY CANADIAN 2016 POLARIS PRIZE WNER, JT DROPPED THE CHILLT OF MIXTAP: LISTEN
Kaytranada, the out gay electronic mician, artist, and DJ who jt won Canada's biggt mic prize, released a super-chill mixtape on Soundcloud. * kaytranada gay *
The 27-year-old add artists are now openg the nversatn on what means to be gay the dtry:. I was like, Yeah, I'm gay.
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But am I really gay? Foundg Brockhampton member Kev Abstract also spoke about what 's like beg a gay rapper the hip-hop muny an terview 2018. “I have to exist a homophobic space orr to make change and that homophobic space would be the hip-hop muny.