Young Thug: 'I like everythg people say about me – you gay, you a punk, you n't rap, you're the harst' | Hip-hop | The Guardian

Contents:

• IS YOUNG THUG GAY? RAPPER ADDRS MOURS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
• IS YOUNG THUG GAY? THE TTH ABOUT THE RUMORS
• YOUNG THUG SAYS LIL NAS X SHOULDN'T HAVE COME OUT AS GAY: 'IT'S JT ALL JUDGMENT'
• YOUNG THUG: 'I LIKE EVERYTHG PEOPLE SAY ABOUT ME – YOU GAY, YOU A PUNK, YOU N'T RAP, YOU'RE THE HARST'
• IS YOUNG THUG THE FIRST GAY THUG RAPPER?
• HIP-HOP RUMORS: IS YOUNG THUG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY TRAP RAPPER?
• IS YOUNG THUG GAY? RAPPER CLEARS ALL THE RUMOURS ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY
• RAPPER YOUNG THUG SAYS HE’S NOT GAY: ‘I’M THE STRAIGHTT MAN THE WORLD’
• HIP-HOP RUMORS: SOME TTHY RUMORS ABOUT YOUNG THUG AND THIS “GAY THG”
• IS YOUNG THUG GAY? “I’M THE STRAIGHTT PERSON IN THE WORLD”

IS YOUNG THUG GAY? RAPPER ADDRS MOURS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

Atlanta rapper Young Thug rponds to claims that "he's gay" an -pth terview.

Young Thug has fally addrsed mours surroundg his sexualy after fans have nsistently claimed he's "gay". Durg the terview wh Big Boy, Thug revealed "People say, 'gay' but ni**a" the rapper says before a long pse. The "Hot" rapper ntu "So 's like if people thk that I'm gay, they already misjudged.

The 28 year-old rapper, revealed that many people have speculated that he's been "gay" for years.

IS YOUNG THUG GAY? THE TTH ABOUT THE RUMORS

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Once you found out he was gay, as soon as the song e on now, everybody like, “This gay-a** [n-word]. In an terview, Young Thug ma clear that not only is he not gay, but he's actually been wh more women than most straight men he knows.

YOUNG THUG SAYS LIL NAS X SHOULDN'T HAVE COME OUT AS GAY: 'IT'S JT ALL JUDGMENT'

Once you found out he was gay, everybody, soon as the song e on now, everybody, like, ‘This gay ass n—. The terview me back to Lil Nas X’s sexualy after Young Thug claimed, “You n’t say nothg about a gay person now. Back then, every song you’d say somethg about a gay n—.

Rumours about his sexualy abound, but Thug says he is neher gay nor might expect this seemg disjunctn to fluence his mic, but his lyrics rarely ponr the reali of his plex existence, stead portrayg a bombastic and often surreal versn of his life.

It’s bee a huge talkg pot, and he’s been subjected to homophobic ments on social media. ”Overnight, the 20-year-old Atlanta native — born Montero Lamar Hill — beme the biggt gay pop star the world.

YOUNG THUG: 'I LIKE EVERYTHG PEOPLE SAY ABOUT ME – YOU GAY, YOU A PUNK, YOU N'T RAP, YOU'RE THE HARST'

”“It’s hard to be out genr where beg gay, or exprsg your sexualy, is owned upon, ” add platum rapper and sger iLoveMakonnen, born Makonnen Sheran, who rose to fame as a protégé of Drake and me out as gay 2017. ”Before the viral sensatn of “Old Town Road” turned Hill to a pop star and gay in, hip-hop was already reachg a turng pot s clivy, as more young black men explorg sexualy and terrogatg masculy their work are gettg mastream attentn. ) Kev Abstract, founr of hip-hop llective Brockhampton, me out as gay 2016.

Rap culture has always been powered by unbridled machismo, and one would be hard prsed to not fd a gay slur embedd the lyrics of any of the genre’s most famo archects. In fact, an entire lexin dited to potg out disfort wh gay men has permeated rap lyrics. Slang such as “s” and “No homo” and “Pse” that e queerns as a punchle have been thrown around sually for as the old guard has been replaced wh a younger generatn unncerned wh rigid labels and unbothered by genre, today’s rap and R&B scene isn’t as exclively heteronormative as once was.

IS YOUNG THUG THE FIRST GAY THUG RAPPER?

“We know folks our muny have always been religly nservative, and beg gay is still seen as taboo, ” said Ebro Darn, the global edorial head of hip-hop and R&B for Apple Mic and host of “Ebro the Morng” on New York’s Hot 97 rad statn.

”Over the past uple of years, Ocean’s former Odd Future llaborator, Tyler, the Creator, has transned om a bratty provotr who hurled gay slurs wh reckls abandon to a thoughtful nfsnalist, one who surprisgly and rather matter-of-factly raps about his own attractn to men.

HIP-HOP RUMORS: IS YOUNG THUG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY TRAP RAPPER?

A diverse array of talents such as Brockhampton ontman Kev Abstract, Steve Lacy (also formerly affiliated wh Odd Future) and Skype Williams have all prented works this year that are eely crafted through a black queer his “Arizona Baby” album, -produced by Jack Antonoff (Taylor Swift), Abstract reflects on growg up gay and Corp Christi at the turn of the lennium.

And a young black gay man has the No. 1 song Ameri and jt eclipsed a chart rerd that Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men set 23 years ago wh “One Sweet Day, ” a song spired by the AIDS crisis and the tragic peril brought to so many black gay men this untry. Walter Thompson Innovatn Group back 2016 found that only 48% of 13-20 year-olds intified as exclively heterosexual, pared to 65% of the generatn before is an dience that shgs when Tyler, the Creator do an about-face the way he did on 2017’s stellar “Flower Boy” where he sually rapped about beg attracted to men after years of g gay slurs — a topic he still ref to addrs outsi of the mic (he cled to be terviewed for this piece).

“Tth is, sce a youth kid, thought was a phase / thought ’d be like the phrase; ‘poof, ’ gone / But, ’s still go’ on, ” he that’s not to say the rt of the mic dtry is that much further mic had lacked an openly gay superstar before Adam Lambert and Sam Smh ma history wh their chart buts and Grammy victori, rpectively.

IS YOUNG THUG GAY? RAPPER CLEARS ALL THE RUMOURS ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY

And spe their stat as legendary rock hmakers and gay ins, there was much hand-wrgg over how bpics for Queen and Elton John would handle the queerns of s evolutn hip-hop is signifint, albe more gradual and ls pronounced than the larger shift pop culture over reprentatns of black male was Fox’s hip-hop drama “Empire, ” which ma a powerful statement by makg one of s leads a gay black R&B sger (for a time, the rerds released by the character — played by Jsie Smollett — were the only mic by an out gay black man gettg mastream rad play. )“Moonlight, ” a g of age tale about a gay black boy, won bt picture at the Amy Awards 2017 and for the first time queer people of lor outnumbered their whe unterparts on TV, acrdg to GLAAD’s annual TV diversy report. Seri such as “Queen Sugar, ” “Dear Whe People” and “This Is Us” feature storyl abound nuanced black LGBTQ characters; meanwhile, Ryan Murphy’s “Pose, ” which has exposed the world to a part of black queer culture that has spired pop divas for s, is up for two Emmys, cludg one for Billy Porter, the first openly gay black man to receive a lead actor nod.

RAPPER YOUNG THUG SAYS HE’S NOT GAY: ‘I’M THE STRAIGHTT MAN THE WORLD’

A long history of homophobia. Sce the genre’s dawng, nearly five s ago, homophobic attus hip-hop have been the norm.

HIP-HOP RUMORS: SOME TTHY RUMORS ABOUT YOUNG THUG AND THIS “GAY THG”

A and the Beastie Boys boasted about their disda for gay people lyrics.

50 Cent once said wasn’t OK for men to be gay, but women who like women?

”Nicki Maj ced her sizable queer fanbase by g a gay slur on her latt album. ” And Emem has yet to retire his age of “faggot” the 18 years sce he famoly performed wh Elton John at the Grammys as a PR-orchtrated act of good will agast his vicly homophobic lyrics. So much of gay culture is fluencg the world, cludg hip-hop, and yet the culture is ashamed of .

IS YOUNG THUG GAY? “I’M THE STRAIGHTT PERSON IN THE WORLD”

A wave of black queer rap artists, cludg Le1f, Zebra Katz, Cak Da Killa, Mykki Blan and Hoe of LaDosha, broke out of New York at the start of the wh mic and visuals that upend the very same genr nstcts that have been weaponized agast gay men for the last century by pairg hyper-feme athetics — high fashn looks, weave, manicured fgertips — wh braggadocs’ rhym.

”Jt a few weeks ago, New Orleans rapper Young KSB went viral wh a glorly rnchy o to anilg that’s as sexually explic as anythg domatg Spotify playlists — but ’s impossible to image that viralns transng to the as Hill was celebrated for breakg rap’s gay glass ceilg, the jok about his sex life also ma to the news verage.

When asked about Hill’s g out, Young Thug — a rapper who jumped on an “Old Town Road” remix and has toyed wh genr norms by drsg uture gowns — said that Hill “probably shouldn’t have told the world” he was gay.