Hip-hop has rarely been herald for s acceptance of the gay muny, but all thgs mt change wh time. Lots of rappers and hip-hoppers are speculated to be gay. Lil B seemed like he was g out when he dropped a mixtape entled I'm Gay (I'm Happy), but nied ...
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RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
There’s a lack of gay men mastream rap mic. The kd of rap I went to high school wh was like Drake and Wiz Khalifa, and none of them are gay but they’re artists who are pretty much ee to exprs exactly who they are.
I feel like that kd of spired everybody else to do the same thg, and a lot of those rappers are gay, and they’re exactly who they are, they’re pletely real and uncut. You see artists like Kev Abstract and Brockhampton, I feel like what they’re dog is really liberatg to a lot of fans of rap who also happen to be gay. We saw when hip-hop heavyweight Emem peppered "Rap God" wh anti-gay slurs, spe claimg he had no problem wh homosexualy.
TEN GAY RAPPERS BREAKG DOWN BARRIERS AND BRGG DAT HEAT
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.
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).