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ILOVEMAKONNEN ON BREAKG FREE OF ‘INDTRY POLICS,’ BEG GAY HIP-HOP AND WHEN THGS ‘SOURED’ WH DRAKE

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The LGBTQ+ muny has been breakg genr norms the hip-hop world sce the 80s, but exprsg their sexualy through the beat has always been a performers say they've had to al wh harassment and misnceptns about their sexual inti not only om the fans, but wh the mic queer artists like Lil Nas X, Cardi B, and Frank Ocean have gaed populary worldwi, LGBTQ+ performers say they are beg more accepted by mastream new generatn of performers say they have more of an opportuny to exprs their sexualy through Santana speaks wh ABC News News"Gays really jt have so much fluence and people don’t really want to put that the foreont so I feel like that's my job, " artist Scy Santana told ABC News Santana, whose real name is Jt Harris, said he had no fear that he and his acts, which clu very explic sexual lyrics and imagery, would be rejected by the hip-hop muny. "I me gay, and I me swgg, " he told ABC News' Rocsi rapper also shared that he his personal experienc growg up wh maly women to relate to others sayg, "I rap om a female standpot. So, to me, I'm jt like, 'Well, then I'm gonna be loud about the same way that I'm glad about beg gay, '" Snow Tha Product said.

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

Check out the many hip-hop artists who are out and proud as gay, lbian or bisexual. * gay people in hip hop *

ILoveMakonnen wears his eedom well, as he first displayed when he me out as gay 2017 — a brave public admissn for an artist of any mil genre, let alone hip-hop.

“All I Want to See” is about me beg a gay man but still gog to the strip club, havg fun, urtg the girls, watchg them dance. You me out as gay 2017, a rare occurrence hip-hop, though that is changg thanks to the lik of yourself and Lil Nas X….

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

Terrence Dean's new book about gays the entertament dtry has been stirrg up the blogs — partly bee he don't name nam * gay people in hip hop *

Look, I’m om Atlanta –the Black gay pal of the world; the Mec of hip-hop. They want to be accepted and ol, and g out as gay isn’t tly accepted or ol the hip-hop muny. It has for too long flirted wh the gay muny while also hatg on the gay muny.

Openly gay people support hip-hop but openly gay people don’t get supported by the culture they support and help thrive. In the same ve, we also tend to see and hear a certa type of emcee over others—one who checks every box that aligns wh the genre’s firm power stctur both sonilly and athetilly, leavg many talented artists out of the equatn simply bee of who they self is an extensn of black culture and the muny that birthed , one that rri a longstandg, well-documented history of homophobia and transphobia.

This mdset often translat to the lyrics ma famo by some of the game’s top artists, such as Emem’s rampant homophobia 2000’s “Crimal, ” Lil Wayne’s e of “faggot” 2008’s “A Milli, ” and Kanye Wt’s “no homo” bar Jay-Z’s 2009 h “Run This Town, ” stanc hardly scratchg the surface. We always have to be strong, ” Rosar, who intifi as gay and Ao-Lato, explas to The Root.

GUS WHO'S GAY HIP-HOP

(He intifi as gay. “[A song or beat] n be fire, but ’s not accepted [by listeners] bee ‘Oh they’re gay, they’re trans, we don’t know what that is, we don’t know what that looks like, I don’t want to hear that gay sh, ’” she explas. Gee says that the dtry has a propensy to prop up “men who don’t appear to be gay” as hip-hop’s LGBTQ figur.

(“A lot of didn’t know Frank Ocean was [bisexual], ” she not, and as we know, Lil Nas X did not e out as gay until after the succs of “Old Town Road.

There’s also Le1f and Brockhampton’s Kev Abstract (who are both gay), Angel Haze (who is openly pansexual) and Mykki Blan (a trans woman), who reprent their muni while lettg their talents take center stage. That go for straight men or gay men.

THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

A and Chika are lbians who prent as “butch” (mascule), while Big Freedia, who intifi as gay, wears lorful outfs and long wigs, and both “he/him” and “she/her” pronouns. ”)Durg Cak’ dn round performance on the show, judge Cardi B asks him pot-blank: “In the dtry, do you thk that you’re gonna be that first gay artist? “The majory of the fan bas are ma up of gay men, ” Cak not.

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