From Tyler, the Creator to Lil Nas X, hip-hop has never had so many stars who intify as gay or bisexual. Is this a blip or a turng pot?
Contents:
- RAPPER LIL B ON 'I'M GAY': 'WE'RE ALL ONE PEOPLE'
- RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- LIL B IS GAY, VERIFIED
- IS RAPPER LIL JAY FACG GAY RUMORS AFTER LEAKED PRISON VIO?
- HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
- 42 DUGG REPORTEDLY DROPPED BY LIL BABY'S LABEL AFTER GAY SPECULATN
- 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
- AMERI NEED A GAY, BLACK MAN TO TOP S UNTRY CHARTS. PROTECT LIL NAS X AT ALL STS
- LIL YACHTY EXPLAS WHY HE’S CELIBATE: “WOMEN PROBABLY THK I’M GAY”
- LIL YACHTY REVEALS PEOPLE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY
RAPPER LIL B ON 'I'M GAY': 'WE'RE ALL ONE PEOPLE'
Rapper Lil B said he is receivg ath threats bee of his cisn to tle his next album I’m Gay. "People been htg me up like, 'I'm gonna bash your head ,' 'you f----t,' 'I'm gonna kill you,'" said the rapper. Lil B said he is heterosexual but “gay” the sense of happy. He sists that the album name is not a gimmick, a pot raised by officials wh the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, who said they hoped his album reprented “a scere attempt to be an ally.” * is rapper lil b gay *
At this year's Coachella Mic and Arts Ftival, Lil B announced he would name one of his future albums "I'm Gay.
" STORY HIGHLIGHTS Album tle has brought bate, ath threats "I'm not homosexual. In ont of thoands of ncert-goers at April's Coachella Mic and Arts Ftival, the 21-year-old rap artist announced that he would name one of his future albums "I'm Gay.
" "I thk that (announcement) was so much bigger than he was, " said Terrance Dean, a former MTV executive and the openly gay thor of the book "Hidg Hip-Hop.
RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
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" While advot the LGBT muny like Dean feel that Lil B is scere, others like Lloyd "Gyant" Dwiddie, a BET blogger of the year who is openly gay, aren't so sure.
LIL B IS GAY, VERIFIED
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I hope that I n turn some of my fans that might be homophobic or supporters that might be homophobic and say, "You know what, we're all one people. Lil B: Maly, a lot of them are on Twter, sayg that they're gog to kill me for beg gay, and they're gog to kill me for beg homosexual even though I'm not homosexual. 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.
IS RAPPER LIL JAY FACG GAY RUMORS AFTER LEAKED PRISON VIO?
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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).
HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
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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.
And sce y'all love breakg news, here's some old news to break, I'm gay. 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.
42 DUGG REPORTEDLY DROPPED BY LIL BABY'S LABEL AFTER GAY SPECULATN
"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.
30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
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.
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. When he told the world he was gay, Blan also revealed he was HIV posive. 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. Eventually, he told her he was gay and has been out and proud ever sce. 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.
AMERI NEED A GAY, BLACK MAN TO TOP S UNTRY CHARTS. PROTECT LIL NAS X AT ALL STS
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.
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.
LIL YACHTY EXPLAS WHY HE’S CELIBATE: “WOMEN PROBABLY THK I’M GAY”
"An terracial gay uple, I mean that's jt weird for Ameri right now. 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.
LIL YACHTY REVEALS PEOPLE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY
" 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.