In an terview recently for The New York Tim, Syd Tha Kyd talks about her time the group Odd Future and her cisn to move on, touchg on how her beg gay rulted prsure om the gay muny to leave. “The gay muny hated me for beg part of Odd Future," Syd says
Contents:
- RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- SYD: 'THE BACKLASH OM THE GAY MUNY HURT MY FEELGS'
- TYLER, THE CREATOR’S ATTEMPT TO SUBVERT NEO-NAZI PROPAGANDA FOR GAY RIGHTS IS ADMIRABLE BUT NAïVE
- SYD THA KYD TALKS ABOUT HER DECISN TO LEAVE ODD FUTURE IN RELATN TO HER BEG GAY
RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
Syd Bent is the new darlg of pist, sensual soul. Here she explas why sgg don’t make her a ‘sger’ – and why beg gay don’t make her part of a ‘muny’ * odd future 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. 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.
SYD: 'THE BACKLASH OM THE GAY MUNY HURT MY FEELGS'
Alicia Keys gay? Odd Future's Syd The Kyd thks so. The rap group's sole female member, also a lbian, wants Keys to e out the closet. * odd future gay *
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.
TYLER, THE CREATOR’S ATTEMPT TO SUBVERT NEO-NAZI PROPAGANDA FOR GAY RIGHTS IS ADMIRABLE BUT NAïVE
Syd, the openly gay former Odd Future member, livers on the group's ial promise. * odd future gay *
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.
SYD THA KYD TALKS ABOUT HER DECISN TO LEAVE ODD FUTURE IN RELATN TO HER BEG GAY
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.