Rappers Who Have Come Out As Gay

Contents:

• INSIR EXPOS HOW RAPPERS ARE DGGED AND RAPED BY GAY MIC EXECUTIV AT HOLLYWOOD MANSN PARTI AND STUD SSNS
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• THE GAY HIP HOP BOOK, REVEALED: ACTORS, RAPPERS, AND A 'MEGASTAR'
• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
• EXPOSG HIP-HOP'S GAY SUBCULTURE

INSIR EXPOS HOW RAPPERS ARE DGGED AND RAPED BY GAY MIC EXECUTIV AT HOLLYWOOD MANSN PARTI AND STUD SSNS

Anti-gay bigotry is on the fensive hip-hop right superstar Lil Nas X, who me out as gay 2019, has been sparrg wh people who exprs many of the logil nsistenci that unrlie homophobia. On Instagram, DaBaby then ma thgs worse by explag that he had been tryg to show that his gay fans “got class, ” unlike the “nasty … junki on the street” who get AIDS.

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RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

It’s crazy to thk that some of the most gangster rappers throughout history may have been possibly forced to or willgly did gay thgs behd the scen, but wh so many people scribg the same kd of stori there has to be some tth to price for fame may be much steeper than we all once JordanThrilla Staff. 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.

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.

HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

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. 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. 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.

THE GAY HIP HOP BOOK, REVEALED: ACTORS, RAPPERS, AND A 'MEGASTAR'

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.

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 .

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).

30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)

"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. " 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).

" 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. " She also discsed the prevalence of vlence agast butch-prentg gay women, highlightg the murr of a number of lbians a regn of Chile that has bee notor for s homophobic hate crim.

"Beg 'butch' means wearg your sexualy on your sleeve, which, an age still explibly marred by homophobia, n have grave nsequenc all over the world, " she stated. "I never knew where I stood [ the gay scene] until I looked around and realized that not only did a certa group of people fd me attractive, but the feelg was mutual, and that was the bear muny, " he revealed.

21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

Regardg beg a gay hip-hop artist, he ntrasted himself wh straight rappers, many of whom he emed preoccupied wh rcg women to the sum of their parts. Yterday, I fally received my advance py of Hidg Hip Hop, former closeted entertament dtry gadfly (pictured) Terrance Dean's much-hyped tobgraphy about all of the gays that are, well, hidg hip hop. It's basilly an extend tease om a man who was eply ensnced the "down low" now, today's highlights—there are lots of gay scen wh anonymo people this book, but the are the on that seem to volve the most famo subjects:Dean is at Keenen Ivory Wayans' birthday party.

However, there were already many mors swirlg about his sexualy, and even though he married, was hard for him to shake those pky gay mors. Tagged: 50 Cent, Biggie Smalls, Breakfast Club, Entertament, Freemason, Freemasonic Symbols, Freemasonry, Gay Rual, Hip Hop, Hollywood, Homosexual, Huiatn Rual, Illumati, Mic Indtry, New World Orr, Notor B. There has been a well-known stigma towards homosexualy hip-hop which has led to some artists’ reers beg tarnished by mors that they had associatns wh people of the same sex.

While his h song “Old Town Road” was at the top of the Billboard Top 100 Chart for a rerd-breakg 19 weeks, Lil Nas X ma the brave cisn to e out as a gay rapper. In one of his tracks, he touch upon this subject wh the lyrics, “Won’t let me through ‘e I’m back like Santan, Won’t let me through ‘e I’m gay like Schofield. As a gay Lat female rerdg artist, Snow Tha Product acknowledg that her journey hasn’t been smooth, but she emphasiz that honty is ccial.

EXPOSG HIP-HOP'S GAY SUBCULTURE

This tweet, which was both ndid and wty, required a lot of urage to liver, particularly 2017 when beg a gay rapper was still a ntroversial topic the mic dtry. He distguish himself his mic by beg ndid about his sexualy and sex life, which is not unmon for heterosexual hip-hop artists but is not typil for gay artists. Da Brat ced the pervasive homophobia of the ’90s for her cisn not to e out earlier and said that people like Ellen faced signifint backlash for beg openly gay.

However, he ultimately accepted that his happs and the value of the reprentatn as a Black gay rapper eclipsed a need for acceptance wh the hip-hop muny. She also discsed the prevalence of vlence agast butch-prentg gay women, highlightg the murr of several lbians a regn of Chile that has bee notor for s homophobic hate crim.

“Beg ‘butch’ means wearg your sexualy on your sleeve, which, an age still explibly marred by homophobia, n have grave nsequenc all over the world, ” she stated.

The rapper also llaborated wh openly gay hip-hop artist iLoveMakonnen, provg that diversy and acceptance were at the foreont of his creative visn.

Although there’s a long way to go before the discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ artists be a thg of the past, the rise of gay artists is a sign that the hip-hop dtry has started to break away om the notns. ”“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.