Mykki Blan Arrted Portugal "For Beg Gay" | Pchfork

Contents:

• MYKKI BLAN ARRTED PORTUGAL "FOR BEG GAY"
• GAY DOG FOOD
• MYKKI BLAN ‘GAY DOG FOOD’ MIXTAPE
• MYKKI BLAN - GAY DOG FOOD (MIXTAPE)
• MYKKI BLAN PRENTS: GAY DOG FOOD
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

MYKKI BLAN ARRTED PORTUGAL "FOR BEG GAY"

” Wrg is their first love; they even nsired givg up mic 2015 to bee an vtigative journalist, documentg “homosexualy and gay culture remote rners of the world”.

We’d planned this phone ll as a chance to talk about the state of homophobia and transphobia mic, but our nversatn bounc around wildly — om Pri experienc (still very much on our bras) to the state of LGBTQ reprentatn the mic dtry to their own journey wh genr as well as their wdg path through the dtry.

GAY DOG FOOD

On one hand, my reer began before gay marriage was passed the U. In certa queer circl, and even certa circl that I felt were like whe gay power circl, I did feel a changg of the guard a posive way, where wrers and edors and people that pull some weight the media are now people of lor, are now trans or genr non-nformg people of lor, are now lbians.

MYKKI BLAN ‘GAY DOG FOOD’ MIXTAPE

But also Lil Nas X [appears to intify as] a cis male gay. And I know she’s experienced timidatn and homophobia, but at the same time I feel like she’s fely more accepted the hip-hop muny bee she still has the same kd of hyper-mascule braggadoc as a cis het male.

MYKKI BLAN - GAY DOG FOOD (MIXTAPE)

Hip-hop has this reputatn for beg particularly homophobic, and people the dtry talk about as if ’s the genre that has been the slowt to embrace LGBTQ cln.

Well, I would say that I disagree that hip-hop is more homophobic than pop. And while historilly hip-hop has been a very homophobic, transphobic and queerphobic mil genre, to say that hip-hop is more homophobic than pop or untry or R&B I thk is actually racist, bee mak so that the more historilly passable genr are not rponsible for the transgrsns that they have ma agast the queer, genr non-nformg and LGBTQ muny.

It almost absolv them and imak hip-hop a spegoat, when general we’re talkg about an entire mic dtry that has long been very homophobic.

MYKKI BLAN PRENTS: GAY DOG FOOD

So, y, if you want to get to the nty grty, we have so many more exampl of homophobia and transphobia wh hip-hop songs — that’s somethg that no one n ny.

But I thk people should be very reful when they say that hip-hop is “more homophobic” than pop or untry or die. ” As we talk about homophobia and transphobia the dtry today, are you more optimistic about what you’ve seen even the last five years?

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

It’s like when I started makg mic, two or three years later, Obama passed gay marriage.

And so when I say, “Oh, I haven’t recently experienced transphobia or homophobia, ” the only reason why I haven’t is that I have now created a platform that enabl me to experience ls of . But I remember playg that 2013 and nearly beg booed off the stage, for no other reason than people’s homophobia.

I remember tellg my first manager, Charl Damga, who’s now A&R at Warp, “People are gonna give me this ‘gay rapper’ label. 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.