Lil Nas X, Tyler, the Creator lead wave of gay/bisexual rappers - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• SCY SANTANA AND IDK RPOND AFTER COLLAB BACKLASH: ‘I DON’T HAVE TO BE A GAY RAPPER TO PUT A GAY RAPPER ON MY SONG’
• IDK TALKS COLLABORATG WH OPENLY GAY RAPPER SCY SANTANA
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• SCY SANTANA EMBRAC BEG LABELED “A GAY RAPPER” IN NEW COVER STORY
• GAY SCE
• 10 CéLèBR RAPPRS QUI SONT SSI GAYS

SCY SANTANA AND IDK RPOND AFTER COLLAB BACKLASH: ‘I DON’T HAVE TO BE A GAY RAPPER TO PUT A GAY RAPPER ON MY SONG’

Scy Santana/IDKRappers IDK and Scy Santana have spoken out on social media after homophobic trolls cricized their recent viral star was featured on DMV rapper IDK’s latt album, F65, and he said he feels ecstatic that he was given this sgle “Pot Noir, ” featurg Jucee Froot, was released last week. While was a signifint w for LGBTQ+ rap trailblazg, IDK was sctized for featurg the openly gay rapper on the track.

After releasg the sgle last week, he beme the victim of a slanro strg of homophobic cricism bee of this cisn. “And also, I don’t have to be a gay rapper to put an openly gay rapper on my song… I heard the beat, and I heard a very talented artist by the name of Scy Santana on that beat.

Now we have a banger for the summer, ” he also, I don’t have to be a gay rapper to put an openly gay rapper on my song… I heard the beat, and I heard a very talented artist by the name of Scy Santana on that beat. “I jt want to show gratu and regnize him for cludg me his space – him beg a straight rapper, me beg an openly gay rapper, ” he said.

IDK TALKS COLLABORATG WH OPENLY GAY RAPPER SCY SANTANA

He also began to expound further on his particular experience beg an openly gay rapper an dtry that is predomantly heterosexual. 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.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

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. 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.

SCY SANTANA EMBRAC BEG LABELED “A GAY RAPPER” IN NEW COVER STORY

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. "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.

GAY SCE

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. He admted to "BBC Breakfast" that he didn't feel like homosexualy was "accepted eher the untry [or] hip-hop muny, " but he hoped fans would "feel fortable" wh . Da Brat ced pervasive homophobia the '90s for her cisn not to e out earlier.

However, he urged gay fans to be ut when g out to homophobic parents, notg 's important to have a back-up plan if thgs go awry. NBC News noted his mic serv as a much-need opposn to a hip-hop culture where homophobic lyrics have tradnally been the norm (50 cent, famed for g the "f" word his songs, has sce apologized for past homophobia, as has Emem).

Pchfork exalted the rapper's unapologetic and unpromisg claratns regardg the joys of gay sex. "We need people who are willg to say: 'I'm gay and I don't give a f***, ' and the world will be a better place, " Cak told Attu.

10 CéLèBR RAPPRS QUI SONT SSI GAYS

That year, Latifah was terviewed by Upsale (via Pri) where she was once aga asked to nfirm mors that she's gay. " She also prevly told The New York Tim that she don't re whether people thk she's gay, but was important for her to mata a modicum of mystery around her personal life. In 2012, he revealed he is gay and once claimed to be the first rapper to e out as such, though this is disputable (Frank Ocean's g out, for stance, cid wh Y-Love's).

"Any nflicts that have e up my life have e up bee of other people's homophobia.

" He highlighted the signifince of livg his tth, revealg he spent years worryg about the potential effects g out might have on his public reputatn, before ultimately ncedg that his personal happs — and the value of reprentatn as a Black gay rapper — eclipsed a need for acceptance wh the hip-hop muny. "Navigatg life the heteronormative Wtern world n be tricky for a gay gal like me, " she wrote.