Is Emem Gay? The Tth Behd the Controversy

Contents:

• EMEM IS GAY? THE RAPPER ONCE SAID “I’M MORE SHOCKED THAT PEOPLE HAVEN’T FIGURED IT OUT YET” – WATCH
• EMEM SAYS HE'S GAY IN THE INTERVIEW, THE WORLD OVERREACTS
• EMEM SAYS COMG OUT AS GAY IN ‘THE INTERVIEW’ WAS NOT AN ACT
• IS EMEM GAY? THE TTH BEHD THE CONTROVERSY
• IS EMEM REALLY GAY? WHAT DID HE SAY IN SONY’S ‘THE INTERVIEW’
• WHAT IF I WAS GAY? (ALTERNATE VERSN)JOYNER LUSON STRAIGHT FROM THE LAB PART 2 FEATURGEMEMPRODUCED BYBOI-1DAJUL. 19, 20221 VIEWER5 CONTRIBUTORSWHAT IF I WAS GAY? (ALTERNATE VERSN) LYRICS[VERSE 1: JOYNER LUS]UHWHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT I WAS DIFFERENT?WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT SOMETHG'S MISS'?AND WHAT IF I TOLD YOU WE'RE NOT ALIKEAND THE WAY THAT I FEEL SI IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU PICTUREWHAT IF I TOLD YOU I FEEL DIVID?KEEP TO MYSELF AND I'M AWFULLY QUIETAND WHAT IF I TOLD YOU I BEEN NFLICTED BY MY OWN THOUGHTSTRAPPED THE DARK, AND I TRIED TO HI NO, I'M NOT A SLAVE TO NO FUCK' FAIRY TALEI BET YOU THK THAT YOU KNOW ME VERY WELLMAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS IS NOT A CRY FOR HELP'CSE I DON'T OWE NO ONE NO EXPLANATN ON HOW I FEEL[PRE-CHOS: JOYNER LUS]BUT ON THE REAL, WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT I WAS BRAVE?I GREW UP DIFFERENT THAN I WAS RAISEDBUT STILL, WHAT IF I TOLD YOU I'M OUT OF PLACE? WAWHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT I WAS GAY?[CHOS: JOYNER LUS]DUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUHYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2: JOYNER LUS]YEAHWHAT IF I TOLD YOU I'M NOT ALRIGHT?I MEAN, I DON'T FEEL DеAD, BUT I'M NOT ALIVEAND WHAT IF I TOLD YOU, "I'M NOT LIKE YOU"AND THE SH I'Vе BEEN GO' THROUGH, 'LL PROLLY MAKE YOU CRYAND WHAT IF I TOLD YOU, "I'M NOT THIS"AND THE PERSON YOU THK YOU KNOW DON'T EXISTLOOK, I'M NOT WHO YOU KNOW, I'M NOT WHO YOU WISHI'M NOT WHO YOU WANT ME TO BE, WHAT YOU WANT OM ME ISN'T THISI GREW UP CHURCH WHERE I ULDN'T BE MYSELFI FELT LIKE A PRISONER, ULDN'T LEAVE MY CELLTHEY TOLD ME, "GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY," AND THIS AN UGLY WORLDAND IF I EVER SEEN THGS DIFFERENT, THEN I WOULD BURN HELL[PRE-CHOS: JOYNER LUS]AND ON THE REAL, THIS IS NOT NEW, THIS IS NOT A PHASEI GREW UP DIFFERENT THAN I WAS RAISEDBUT STILL, WHAT IF I TOLD YOU I'M OUT OF PLACE? WAWHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT I WAS GAY?[CHOS: JOYNER LUS]DUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH[VERSE 3: EMEM]WHAT IF I TOLD YOU I'M HOMOPHOBIC?AND YOU HAVE ZERO NTROL OVER YOUR IMPULSAND THE GEIC FLAW YOUR CHROMOSOM IS THE CULPRIT'S SOMETH' I N'T SUGARAT, 'S REPULSIVEWE WERE HOMI, SCE CHILDREN, I THOUGHT BUT THOUGHT I WAS BUGG', THOUGH'CSE WE'D S, CHILL AND JT TALK CHICKSNOW HOW N WE BE IENDS STILL ON THE BLOCKWHEN SK PIGMENT IS NOT OUR BIGGT DIFFERENCE, 'S AWKWARDDON'T THK 'S SOMETH' I N'T AL WHTHK I'M 'ONNA VOM, I'M GETT' THIS SICK FEEL', I'M NSEOPART OF ME WISH YOU'D KEPT THIS SH, STILL THE CLOSETI'M WHE, BUT THIS IS GIV' ME MIXED FEELGS, LIKE LOGICI REMEMBER KIDS STEAL' YOUR BIG WHEEL AND LL' YOU SISSY'CSE YOU WOULDN'T DO SH REALLY TO STOP AND NOW ALL MAK SENSEIS THIS THE END OF OUR IENDSHIP?IT'S START' TO SEND CHILLS THROUGH MY BODYYEAH, I'M PISSED OFF A LTLE, THIS IS A CHOICEWE WERE S'POSED TO BE BOYSYOU'RE ACT' LIKE THIS A'T OPTNALWHAT IF I SAID YOU WAS WEAK?'CSE YOU DON'T GOT THE STRENGTH TO NQUER SOME BLOGIL MONSTER THAT'S PART OF YOUTHAT'S RPONSIBLE FOR THEM HOMOSEXUAL THOUGHTSIF YOU DON'T WANT A LECTURE, PARTLIKE A SOFA SECTN OR LONG AS YOUMAKE YOUR CISN AND STAND BY , BUT I N'T BE BI 'CSE FOR ME, THAT'D BE NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLEOR YOU LEARN TO NTROL YOUR URGYOU SAY, "IT'S LIKE PULL' TEETH AND MORALS ARE ORAL SURGEONS"BUT HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW ANYWAYS IF YOU'RE A VIRGWHY N'T YOU BE A NORMAL PERSON?WHAT IF I TRIED STEER' YOU TOWARDS A GIRLIEND?WOULDN'T WORK, WOULD ? YOU SEEM PRETTY SUREFOOTEDI'M SURE GOOD AT JUDG', BUT I HAVE NO RIGHTI KNOW GOODBYE SEEMS LD, RIGHT?NOT EVEN A FLICKER OF HOPE LIKE A STROBE LIGHTAS I LEAVE AND I SWEAR I STAYED UP THAT WHOLE NIGHTAND NO, I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WOULD GO RIGHT HOME AND GO TAKE YOUR OWN LIFEI A'T MEAN FOR THAT SH TO HAPPEN, I SAID I WON'T CRY (SH)FAST-FORWARD, SOME YEARS GO BYMY GIRL'S PREGNANT WH TWS, BOY AND GIRLFAST-FORWARD AGA, THEY JT TURNED SEVENI WISH I HAD A CRYSTAL BALL 'E NOW I S AWEJT UGHT MY SON A BRA PLAY' WH HIS SISTER'S DOLLS WH LIPSTICK ON[CHOS: JOYNER LUS & EMEM]DUH NUH, (FUCK) DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, (I THOUGHT WAS A CHOICE) DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUH, DUH NUH NUH DUHDUH NUHEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• IS EMEM GAY? WHAT DID HE SAY THE FILM INTERVIEW?
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIENDBARBIE’S BELOVED BEARD?FOR YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE QUTNED WHAT ROLE KEN REALLY PLAYS BARBIE’S LIFE. BUT THE TTH IS PLA SIGHT: KEN’S NOT BOYIEND MATERIAL. AT LEAST, NOT FOR BARBIE.BARRY LEVTFREELANCE WRERPUBLISHED JUL. 21, 2023 4:35AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYIT’S BARBIE WEEK AT THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, CELEBRATG THE DOLL’S POP-CULTURE HISTORY, OUR FAVORE BARBIE MEMORI, AND A CERTA MAJOR MOVIE. READ ALL OF OUR VERAGE HERE!“SHE’S EVERYTHG. HE’S JT KEN.” THAT’S THE TAGLE FOR THE WILDLY ANTICIPATED BARBIE MOVIE, DIRECTED BY GRETA GERWIG AND STARRG MARGOT ROBBIE AND RYAN GOSLG. THE IMPLITN IS CLEAR: COME FOR BARBIE, AND STAY FOR BARBIE… BUT KEN HAPPENS TO BE THERE TOO.KEN HAS LONG BEEN SEEN AS NOTHG BUT BARBIE’S HUMAN ACCSORY, BUT WASN’T ALWAYS THIS WAY FOR THE POOR MISUNRSTOOD DOLL. WHEN KEN WAS FIRST TRODUCED 1961, HIS FIRST MERCIAL TRIED TO POSN HIM AS BARBIE’S EQUAL AND, UNMISTAKABLY, BOYIEND. “GET BOTH BARBIE AND KEN AND SEE WHERE THE ROMANCE WILL LEAD!” THE MERCIAL PROMISED.SCE THEN, LIKE BARBIE, KEN HAS UNRGONE UNTLS TRANSFORMATNS AND FASHNS. BUT AS TIME WENT ON, KEN FOUND HIMSELF AN AFTERTHOUGHT. TOYMAKERS MATTEL NEVER GAVE HIM THE SAME KD OF BACKSTORI AS BARBIE—WHILE SHE’S HAD OVER 200 REERS, KEN HAS HAD JT SOME 40-ODD PROFSNS. (AN CREDIBLE AMOUNT OF JOBS FOR A PERSON, SURE. BUT FOR A DOLL? EMBARRASSG.) BARBIE HAS STARRED LOTS OF VIO GAM AND MORE THAN THREE DOZEN FILMS; KEN HAS HAD A MAJOR ROLE A MERE HANDFUL OF THEM. BUT THERE’S ONE KEY REASON WHY KEN IS ALWAYS LAGGG SIGNIFINTLY BEHD BARBIE AND 'S A LOT EPER THAN THE DOLL’S SEEMG LACK OF POPULARY: KEN HAS BEEN MISST. HE’S NOT BARBIE’S BOYIEND. HE’S BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.DPE MATTEL’S SISTENCE THAT BARBIE AND KEN ARE A HAPPY ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, THERE’S PLENTY OF SPECULATN ABOUT KEN’S SEXUALY. EVEN IF HIS MAKERS CLAIM HIM TO BE STRAIGHT, THERE’S MOUNTG PROOF TO THE NTRARY. PERHAPS THE MOST DISPUTABLE EVINCE THAT KEN IS FACT BOTH A MEMBER OF THE QUEER MUNY AND BARBIE’S BTIE, NOT BOY TOY, OM A RATHER SURPRISG PLACE: 2010’S TOY STORY 3.IN TOY STORY 3, BARBIE AND KEN PLAY A SURPRISGLY LARGE ROLE. THEIR TRODUCTN TO THE FILM IS TGED WH ROMANTIC TENSN. WHEN THE PAIR MEET, THE FILM VOK A MON TROPE: A ROMANTIC NEEDLE DROP HS THE MOMENT THE LOVERS LOCK EY. IN THIS SE, ’S “DREAM WEAVER” BY GARY WRIGHT. AS FAR AS BARBIE AND KEN ARE NCERNED, THEY’RE THE ONLY ON THE ROOM. “I LOVE YOUR LEG WARMERS!” KEN TELLS BARBIE. “NICE AST,” SHE BANTERS, WH HEAVY EMPHASIS ON THE FIRST SYLLABLE. BEFORE THGS GET TOO HEATED, THEY LOCK ARMS AND WALK OFF TOGETHER. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / GETTY LET’S BE HONT—SPE THE ROMANTIC OVERTON OF THE SCENE, THEIR BRIEF EXCHANGE TELLS EVERYTHG ABOUT HOW THEY SEE EACH OTHER. KEN DON’T MENTN ANYTHG ABOUT BARBIE’S BODY, STEAD HIGHLIGHTG HER LEG WARMERS. BUT BARBIE IS UNSUBTLY TRYG TO SCE KEN JT TWO WORDS. SHE’S AFTER KEN, BUT KEN IS AFTER SOMEONE WHOSE CLOTH HE N ADMIRE.SURE, LATER THE FILM, KEN AND BARBIE SAY “I LOVE YOU” TO EACH OTHER. AND THEY GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN SAYG EACH WORD OF “I LOVE YOU”—SO SOMEONE DIFFERENT N SAY “LOVE” EACH TIME, AS KEN EXPLAS. HE MENTNS OFFHAND THAT HE HAS EVERYTHG EXCEPT SOMEONE TO SHARE WH. BARBIE AND KEN EVEN NUZZLE THEIR NOS TOGETHER. Y, THERE’S FELY LOVE BETWEEN IENDS—BUT THROUGH ALL, THERE’S NOT A HT OF SEXUAL CHEMISTRY.LOOK, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THKG—SIR, THIS IS TOY STORY; WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU EXPECTG? IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER ROMANC THE ANCHISE—WOODY AND BO PEEP, AND JSE AND BUZZ—THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT THERE’S REAL LOVE THERE BETWEEN THE SENTIENT TOYS. THEIR PASSN FOR ONE ANOTHER TRANSCENDS MORE THAN SIMPLY BEG TERTED EACH OTHER’S OUTFS. THE SAME NNOT BE SAID OF THE MATTEL DOLLS. THAT’S MA EVINT WHEN KEN FALLY GETS AN OPPORTUNY FOR TIMACY WH BARBIE. “THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS,” HE TELLS BARBIE WHEN THEY FALLY GO TO HIS DREAMHOE TOGETHER, HAVG PARENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD CLUTCHG THEIR PEARLS. BUT FEAR NOT: KEN SIMPLY TAK BARBIE TO… HIS WALK- WARDROBE. ANY SEMBLANCE OF ROMANCE MAK WAY FOR IENDSHIP, WHEN THE PAIR JUBILANTLY PESE KEN’S OUTFS. AND STEAD OF DOG SOMETHG WILD LIKE KISSG BARBIE, KEN PUTS ON A FASHN SHOW FOR HER STEAD. THE FILM WON’T SAY , BUT A POST-CREDS PUNCHLE ABOUT KEN’S HANDWRG, PLETE WH HEARTS AND STARS SURROUNDG HIS NAME, TELLS WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.THE HEAVILY IMPLIED NATURE OF KEN’S GAYNS TOY STORY 3 HARKENS BACK TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRADNAL GAY BT IEND-TYPE CHARACTERS. IN THE HAYS CO ERA, EXPLIC REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY WEREN’T ALLOWED, SO CHARACTERS LIKE VAN BUREN (FRANKL PANGBORN) 1937’S EASY LIVG, KIP (DAVID WAYNE) 1949’S ADAM’S RIB, OR ADDISON (GEE SANRS) 1950’S ALL ABOUT EVE STEAD WERE IMBUED WH EFFEMATE CHARACTERISTICS, OFFERG A GLIMPSE OUTSI OF HETERONORMATIVY WHOUT EXPLICLY BEG QUEER.NONE OF THE CHARACTERS WERE THE SAME—SOME WERE TTY, OTHERS SWEET. SOME HAD ULTERR MOTIV, AND OTHERS OFFERED UNNDNAL SUPPORT. BUT EACH OF THE GAY BT IENDS WAS TRSILLY FED BY THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT IENDS. WE NEVER REALLY LEARNED MUCH ABOUT THEM AS DIVIDUALS. THEY LIVED ON THE MARGS, FLHG OUT THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS, HARDLY HAVG A PURPOSE WHOUT THEM; THAT PORTRAYAL REMAS TE TODAY. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / PHOTOS BY GETTY / WARNER BROS. DES LATER, 2010, THE GAY BT IEND WAS ALL THE RAGE; TEEN VOGUE EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO PROCLAIM THE GBF AS THE SUMMER’S MT-HAVE ACCSORY. BUT UNLIKE THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, TODAY’S CEMA, THE GBF IS ALLOWED TO BE OPENLY GAY. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY STILL BARELY REGISTER AS PEOPLE WH CHARACTER TRAS BEYOND THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS. IN MOVI LIKE MEAN GIRLS (2004), THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006), EASY A (2010), NO STRGS ATTACHED (2011), AND ISN’T IT ROMANTIC (2019), GAY IENDS EXIST ENTIRELY THE ORB OF THEIR FEMALE IENDS. IT’S SUCH A STRONG TROPE THAT EVEN PERSISTS QUEER ROMANTIC EDI: 2020’S HAPPIT SEASON FDS JOHN (DAN LEVY) OFFERG ADVICE AND SNARKY ONE-LERS TO HIS LBIAN BTIE LI OF MEANGFUL CHARACTER VELOPMENT.IN TOY STORY 3, THE SAME IS TE OF KEN. HIS EXISTENCE PENDS ON AND CIRCULAT AROUND BARBIE. IN BARBIE, KEN HAS FOUND SOMEONE WHO REALLY UNRSTANDS HIM. HE DON’T GET ALONG WH THE OTHER TOYS, WHO MOCK HIM FOR BEG A “GIRL'S TOY.” BUT BARBIE LOV FASHN, JT LIKE HE DO. “NO ONE APPRECIAT CLOTH HERE, BARBIE,” KEN LAMENTS TO BARBIE, ABOUT THE OTHER TOYS’ TREATMENT OF HIM. “NO ONE!” BUT BARBIE DO, AND FOR KEN, THAT’S LIFE-CHANGG.THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS WHY THE FILM WOULDN’T OUTRIGHTLY STATE THAT KEN IS HOMOSEXUAL. NOT ONLY DO DISNEY SELF HAVE A PLITED HISTORY WH QUEER CHARACTERS, BUT KEN AND BARBIE ARE ALSO THE PROPERTY OF MATTEL, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN STEADFAST ASSERTG KEN’S HETEROSEXUALY. THAT’S NEVER BEEN CLEARER THAN 1993 WHEN THE TOY PANY TRIED TO REIGNE KEN’S POPULARY MATTEL’S SOLUTN? EARRG MAGIC KEN. EARRG MAGIC KEN WAS A FIERCER, FELY MORE QUEER KEN THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS VERSN OF THE DOLL HAD BLEACHED BLON HAIR, A PURPLE LEATHER VT (!), A PK-PURPLE MH TOP (!!), AND OF URSE, AND EARRG THE “GAY EAR”. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL: AROUND KEN’S NECK WAS SOMETHG THAT ANY ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OF THE QUEER SCENE THE ’90S REGNIZED STANTLY—A CK RG (!!!).THE EARRG MAGIC KEN TURNED BARBIE’S BOYIEND TO AN OUT-AND-PROUD HOMOSEXUAL RAVER. MATTEL, OF URSE, VEHEMENTLY NIED ANY CLAIMS THAT KEN WAS GAY, LET ALONE THAT HE HAD SOMETHG AS PREPOSTERO AS A CK RG AROUND HIS NECK. AS LISA MCKENDALL, FORMER MANAGER OF MARKETG AND MUNITNS, SAID AN TERVIEW ABOUT THE DOLL, “WE’RE NOT THE BS OF PUTTG CK RGS TO THE HANDS OF LTLE GIRLS.”REGARDLS OF MATTEL’S TENTNS, ’S HARD TO NY WHAT THE EYE N SEE. DPE THE NAME, CK RGS AT THE TIME WERE ED AS A FASHN ACCSORY AND A SIGN OF FIANT QUEERNS AND SEX POSIVY. AS A RULT, GAY MEN BOUGHT THE DOLL DROV, AND SPE MATTEL ULTIMATELY RELLG THE DOLL AND WIPG AWAY ANY TRACE OF EARRG MAGIC KEN, WAS NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE KEN AS ANYTHG BUT THE GLOR HOMOSEXUAL HE WAS BORN TO BE OM THEN ON. MATTEL SPENT THE NEXT UPLE OF S TRYG TO RETA KEN’S MORE HETERONORMATIVE, MASCULE IMAGE, BUT THE VEIL WAS LIFTED, AND THERE WAS NO GOG BACK. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS BY GETTY/WARNER BROS. THOUGH MATTEL DON’T SEEM TO BE WILLG TO SAY KEN IS ACTUALLY GAY, THE KEN DOLLS OF RECENT YEARS SEEM TO REALLY LEAN TO KEN’S QUEERNS. THE YASSIFITN OF KEN IS CLEARLY UNRWAY. WHILE THERE IS NO WAY TO “DRS GAY,” THERE ARE SEVERAL DOLLS THAT SEEM TO SUGGT OTHERWISE, SUCH AS:FASHNISTA KEN #193, WHO LOOKS VERY EXCED TO TELL YOU ABOUT HIS NEW OBSSN, TROYE SIVAN;TRAVEL KEN DOLL, WHO HAS A SATCHEL PERFECT FOR BATHHO AND A PURPLE OVERNIGHT BAG THAT LERALLY PROCLAIMS HE’S “EXTRA;”KEN LOOKS DOLL, SERVG “I’M GONNA GIVE YOU A MAKEOVER”-TYPE REALNS WHILE SPORTG BLACK PLEATHER PANTS;THIS KEN, WHO WEARS THE LEAST HETEROSEXUAL DOUBLE NIM IMAGABLE.WHILE I HAVE A FEELG THE NEW BARBIE MOVIE WILL PUT THE WORK TO NVCE THAT KEN IS A HETERO DU WHO LOV NOTHG LIFE MORE THAN BARBIE HERSELF, THE WRG’S ALREADY ON THE WALL: KEN IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK.READ MORE OF OUR BARBIE VERAGE HERE. BARRY LEVT
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EMEM IS GAY? THE RAPPER ONCE SAID “I’M MORE SHOCKED THAT PEOPLE HAVEN’T FIGURED IT OUT YET” – WATCH

When Emem Said “I’ve Been Playg Gay Peek-A-Boo For Years” & Left The Host Stunned Beyond Words – Watch ( Photo Cred – Emem / Flickr). Well, ’s the rapper’s 2014 meo appearance as himself where he said he was GAY. Durg the scripted terview, Emem —who has been equently acced of beg homophobic owg to the e of the f-word nsistently, out as gay.

The vio then se the Love the Way You Lie rapper tellg Jam Fran’s character, “I’ve been playg gay peek-a-boo for years. I’ve pretty much been leavg a gay bread cmb trail. What did you thk of this ‘gay’ nfsn of Emem?

) This time, ’s rap star Emem, who adms durg a televised terview wh Jam Fran’s character, Dave Skylark, that he’s gay. As you might image, the team the productn booth – led by Rogen’s character, Aaron Rapaport – reacts acrdgly this TMZ-fed, hyper-sensive, pop-culture media treats the whole thg very serly, tellg Fran’s character that he has been "playg gay peek-a-boo" wh his fans, and has "pretty much been leavg a bread cmb trail of gayns" for his fans to follow back to the tth.

EMEM SAYS HE'S GAY IN THE INTERVIEW, THE WORLD OVERREACTS

Some who’ve seen the movie state:While others bypass the btaly aimed at Kim Jon-un and crique:Whout divg too eply to the cspool that is Twter, there were plenty of opns about Emem, the scene, and the movie as The Interview ntued to be streamed over Christmas is a recurrg theme on Twter, that Emem would have to be paid to say that he's gay. Acrdg to Showbiz 411, a December 17 Tweet:And yet, Emem equently has ed his celebry and his public persona to she a light on homosexualy and gay rights.

Prr to participatg The Interview, Emem’s biggt visible display had to be his duet wh openly gay Elton John at the Grammy ’s a shame The Interview isn’t openg as wi as planned, bee we’d love to hear more reactn to Emem’s amg meo.

Marshall Mathers, also known by his stage name Emem, one of the most succsful rappers of all time, ma a meo the highly ntroversial edy film The Interview,  which he plays himself, announcg durg an terview that he is gay. Acrdg to Emem, when asked about the movie and s dialogue, which he nonchalantly proclaimed to be a gay man, the rapper said that he ad-libbed that whole scene himself, and that although the film was played like a joke, was his way of discsg his te opn on the matters of sex and celebri. I’ve rapped about sex, I’ve rapped about beg gay.

EMEM SAYS COMG OUT AS GAY IN ‘THE INTERVIEW’ WAS NOT AN ACT

The rapper, who has been tensely sctized throughout his reer for g homophobic slurs, said that he jt ed rogatory terms to be ironic, and that his sex life is private, and that everyone’s sex life should be as public or as private as they want to be. “After puttg a lot of thought to , I me to the ultimate ncln that there are probably thoands, if not lns of fans of me that are gay and livg a lie.

First of all, Emem is monstrably not homophobic, though maybe some lyrics suggt .

IS EMEM GAY? THE TTH BEHD THE CONTROVERSY

Admtedly, Emem stormg out mak him look homophobic. Thk about the homophob you've met. Ergo Emem is not a homophobe.

Yeah, what homophobe would take the stage wh Elton John? Homophob aren't tight iends wh homosexual ins.

IS EMEM REALLY GAY? WHAT DID HE SAY IN SONY’S ‘THE INTERVIEW’

But I gus jt bee he go along wh gay pranks and has gay iends don't mean he necsarily believ equaly. Except for when he said he supports gay marriage. Now at this pot, all you n really say is that he is cidly progrsive on the issue of homosexualy, no matter how you view his method of exprsg that.

Let's be real, we both know femist women love gays. He's sayg the antidote to homophobia is lettg lose and acknowledgg the real self.

For gay rights. His appearance the film sparked a bate about his sexualy when he said he was gay. This has ed many fans to qutn if Emem is actually gay or not.

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Is Emem Gay? In the scene om ‘The Interview’, Dave Skylark (played by Jam Fran) terviews Emem who rponds to a qutn about beg gay wh an affirmative answer. He says “Yeah, I’m gay, but shh!

” This le is seen as a joke by some viewers and as proof that Emem is actually gay by others. In his meo The Interview, Emem tells Dave Skylark that he is gay. After all, if Emem had actually been g out as gay this scene then would have bee an even bigger story than already was when the film first me out.

IS EMEM GAY? WHAT DID HE SAY THE FILM INTERVIEW?

Some people pot out that Emem has had a history of beg homophobic his lyrics and mic vios throughout his reer.

However, recent years he seems to have softened his stance on LGBT issu as evinced by his llaboratn wh openly gay sger Elton John (who even attend one of his ncerts).

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIENDBARBIE’S BELOVED BEARD?FOR YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE QUTNED WHAT ROLE KEN REALLY PLAYS BARBIE’S LIFE. BUT THE TTH IS PLA SIGHT: KEN’S NOT BOYIEND MATERIAL. AT LEAST, NOT FOR BARBIE.BARRY LEVTFREELANCE WRERPUBLISHED JUL. 21, 2023 4:35AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYIT’S BARBIE WEEK AT THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, CELEBRATG THE DOLL’S POP-CULTURE HISTORY, OUR FAVORE BARBIE MEMORI, AND A CERTA MAJOR MOVIE. READ ALL OF OUR VERAGE HERE!“SHE’S EVERYTHG. HE’S JT KEN.” THAT’S THE TAGLE FOR THE WILDLY ANTICIPATED BARBIE MOVIE, DIRECTED BY GRETA GERWIG AND STARRG MARGOT ROBBIE AND RYAN GOSLG. THE IMPLITN IS CLEAR: COME FOR BARBIE, AND STAY FOR BARBIE… BUT KEN HAPPENS TO BE THERE TOO.KEN HAS LONG BEEN SEEN AS NOTHG BUT BARBIE’S HUMAN ACCSORY, BUT WASN’T ALWAYS THIS WAY FOR THE POOR MISUNRSTOOD DOLL. WHEN KEN WAS FIRST TRODUCED 1961, HIS FIRST MERCIAL TRIED TO POSN HIM AS BARBIE’S EQUAL AND, UNMISTAKABLY, BOYIEND. “GET BOTH BARBIE AND KEN AND SEE WHERE THE ROMANCE WILL LEAD!” THE MERCIAL PROMISED.SCE THEN, LIKE BARBIE, KEN HAS UNRGONE UNTLS TRANSFORMATNS AND FASHNS. BUT AS TIME WENT ON, KEN FOUND HIMSELF AN AFTERTHOUGHT. TOYMAKERS MATTEL NEVER GAVE HIM THE SAME KD OF BACKSTORI AS BARBIE—WHILE SHE’S HAD OVER 200 REERS, KEN HAS HAD JT SOME 40-ODD PROFSNS. (AN CREDIBLE AMOUNT OF JOBS FOR A PERSON, SURE. BUT FOR A DOLL? EMBARRASSG.) BARBIE HAS STARRED LOTS OF VIO GAM AND MORE THAN THREE DOZEN FILMS; KEN HAS HAD A MAJOR ROLE A MERE HANDFUL OF THEM. BUT THERE’S ONE KEY REASON WHY KEN IS ALWAYS LAGGG SIGNIFINTLY BEHD BARBIE AND 'S A LOT EPER THAN THE DOLL’S SEEMG LACK OF POPULARY: KEN HAS BEEN MISST. HE’S NOT BARBIE’S BOYIEND. HE’S BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.DPE MATTEL’S SISTENCE THAT BARBIE AND KEN ARE A HAPPY ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, THERE’S PLENTY OF SPECULATN ABOUT KEN’S SEXUALY. EVEN IF HIS MAKERS CLAIM HIM TO BE STRAIGHT, THERE’S MOUNTG PROOF TO THE NTRARY. PERHAPS THE MOST DISPUTABLE EVINCE THAT KEN IS FACT BOTH A MEMBER OF THE QUEER MUNY AND BARBIE’S BTIE, NOT BOY TOY, OM A RATHER SURPRISG PLACE: 2010’S TOY STORY 3.IN TOY STORY 3, BARBIE AND KEN PLAY A SURPRISGLY LARGE ROLE. THEIR TRODUCTN TO THE FILM IS TGED WH ROMANTIC TENSN. WHEN THE PAIR MEET, THE FILM VOK A MON TROPE: A ROMANTIC NEEDLE DROP HS THE MOMENT THE LOVERS LOCK EY. IN THIS SE, ’S “DREAM WEAVER” BY GARY WRIGHT. AS FAR AS BARBIE AND KEN ARE NCERNED, THEY’RE THE ONLY ON THE ROOM. “I LOVE YOUR LEG WARMERS!” KEN TELLS BARBIE. “NICE AST,” SHE BANTERS, WH HEAVY EMPHASIS ON THE FIRST SYLLABLE. BEFORE THGS GET TOO HEATED, THEY LOCK ARMS AND WALK OFF TOGETHER. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / GETTY LET’S BE HONT—SPE THE ROMANTIC OVERTON OF THE SCENE, THEIR BRIEF EXCHANGE TELLS EVERYTHG ABOUT HOW THEY SEE EACH OTHER. KEN DON’T MENTN ANYTHG ABOUT BARBIE’S BODY, STEAD HIGHLIGHTG HER LEG WARMERS. BUT BARBIE IS UNSUBTLY TRYG TO SCE KEN JT TWO WORDS. SHE’S AFTER KEN, BUT KEN IS AFTER SOMEONE WHOSE CLOTH HE N ADMIRE.SURE, LATER THE FILM, KEN AND BARBIE SAY “I LOVE YOU” TO EACH OTHER. AND THEY GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN SAYG EACH WORD OF “I LOVE YOU”—SO SOMEONE DIFFERENT N SAY “LOVE” EACH TIME, AS KEN EXPLAS. HE MENTNS OFFHAND THAT HE HAS EVERYTHG EXCEPT SOMEONE TO SHARE WH. BARBIE AND KEN EVEN NUZZLE THEIR NOS TOGETHER. Y, THERE’S FELY LOVE BETWEEN IENDS—BUT THROUGH ALL, THERE’S NOT A HT OF SEXUAL CHEMISTRY.LOOK, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THKG—SIR, THIS IS TOY STORY; WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU EXPECTG? IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER ROMANC THE ANCHISE—WOODY AND BO PEEP, AND JSE AND BUZZ—THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT THERE’S REAL LOVE THERE BETWEEN THE SENTIENT TOYS. THEIR PASSN FOR ONE ANOTHER TRANSCENDS MORE THAN SIMPLY BEG TERTED EACH OTHER’S OUTFS. THE SAME NNOT BE SAID OF THE MATTEL DOLLS. THAT’S MA EVINT WHEN KEN FALLY GETS AN OPPORTUNY FOR TIMACY WH BARBIE. “THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS,” HE TELLS BARBIE WHEN THEY FALLY GO TO HIS DREAMHOE TOGETHER, HAVG PARENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD CLUTCHG THEIR PEARLS. BUT FEAR NOT: KEN SIMPLY TAK BARBIE TO… HIS WALK- WARDROBE. ANY SEMBLANCE OF ROMANCE MAK WAY FOR IENDSHIP, WHEN THE PAIR JUBILANTLY PESE KEN’S OUTFS. AND STEAD OF DOG SOMETHG WILD LIKE KISSG BARBIE, KEN PUTS ON A FASHN SHOW FOR HER STEAD. THE FILM WON’T SAY , BUT A POST-CREDS PUNCHLE ABOUT KEN’S HANDWRG, PLETE WH HEARTS AND STARS SURROUNDG HIS NAME, TELLS WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.THE HEAVILY IMPLIED NATURE OF KEN’S GAYNS TOY STORY 3 HARKENS BACK TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRADNAL GAY BT IEND-TYPE CHARACTERS. IN THE HAYS CO ERA, EXPLIC REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY WEREN’T ALLOWED, SO CHARACTERS LIKE VAN BUREN (FRANKL PANGBORN) 1937’S EASY LIVG, KIP (DAVID WAYNE) 1949’S ADAM’S RIB, OR ADDISON (GEE SANRS) 1950’S ALL ABOUT EVE STEAD WERE IMBUED WH EFFEMATE CHARACTERISTICS, OFFERG A GLIMPSE OUTSI OF HETERONORMATIVY WHOUT EXPLICLY BEG QUEER.NONE OF THE CHARACTERS WERE THE SAME—SOME WERE TTY, OTHERS SWEET. SOME HAD ULTERR MOTIV, AND OTHERS OFFERED UNNDNAL SUPPORT. BUT EACH OF THE GAY BT IENDS WAS TRSILLY FED BY THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT IENDS. WE NEVER REALLY LEARNED MUCH ABOUT THEM AS DIVIDUALS. THEY LIVED ON THE MARGS, FLHG OUT THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS, HARDLY HAVG A PURPOSE WHOUT THEM; THAT PORTRAYAL REMAS TE TODAY. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / PHOTOS BY GETTY / WARNER BROS. DES LATER, 2010, THE GAY BT IEND WAS ALL THE RAGE; TEEN VOGUE EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO PROCLAIM THE GBF AS THE SUMMER’S MT-HAVE ACCSORY. BUT UNLIKE THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, TODAY’S CEMA, THE GBF IS ALLOWED TO BE OPENLY GAY. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY STILL BARELY REGISTER AS PEOPLE WH CHARACTER TRAS BEYOND THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS. IN MOVI LIKE MEAN GIRLS (2004), THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006), EASY A (2010), NO STRGS ATTACHED (2011), AND ISN’T IT ROMANTIC (2019), GAY IENDS EXIST ENTIRELY THE ORB OF THEIR FEMALE IENDS. IT’S SUCH A STRONG TROPE THAT EVEN PERSISTS QUEER ROMANTIC EDI: 2020’S HAPPIT SEASON FDS JOHN (DAN LEVY) OFFERG ADVICE AND SNARKY ONE-LERS TO HIS LBIAN BTIE LI OF MEANGFUL CHARACTER VELOPMENT.IN TOY STORY 3, THE SAME IS TE OF KEN. HIS EXISTENCE PENDS ON AND CIRCULAT AROUND BARBIE. IN BARBIE, KEN HAS FOUND SOMEONE WHO REALLY UNRSTANDS HIM. HE DON’T GET ALONG WH THE OTHER TOYS, WHO MOCK HIM FOR BEG A “GIRL'S TOY.” BUT BARBIE LOV FASHN, JT LIKE HE DO. “NO ONE APPRECIAT CLOTH HERE, BARBIE,” KEN LAMENTS TO BARBIE, ABOUT THE OTHER TOYS’ TREATMENT OF HIM. “NO ONE!” BUT BARBIE DO, AND FOR KEN, THAT’S LIFE-CHANGG.THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS WHY THE FILM WOULDN’T OUTRIGHTLY STATE THAT KEN IS HOMOSEXUAL. NOT ONLY DO DISNEY SELF HAVE A PLITED HISTORY WH QUEER CHARACTERS, BUT KEN AND BARBIE ARE ALSO THE PROPERTY OF MATTEL, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN STEADFAST ASSERTG KEN’S HETEROSEXUALY. THAT’S NEVER BEEN CLEARER THAN 1993 WHEN THE TOY PANY TRIED TO REIGNE KEN’S POPULARY MATTEL’S SOLUTN? EARRG MAGIC KEN. EARRG MAGIC KEN WAS A FIERCER, FELY MORE QUEER KEN THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS VERSN OF THE DOLL HAD BLEACHED BLON HAIR, A PURPLE LEATHER VT (!), A PK-PURPLE MH TOP (!!), AND OF URSE, AND EARRG THE “GAY EAR”. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL: AROUND KEN’S NECK WAS SOMETHG THAT ANY ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OF THE QUEER SCENE THE ’90S REGNIZED STANTLY—A CK RG (!!!).THE EARRG MAGIC KEN TURNED BARBIE’S BOYIEND TO AN OUT-AND-PROUD HOMOSEXUAL RAVER. MATTEL, OF URSE, VEHEMENTLY NIED ANY CLAIMS THAT KEN WAS GAY, LET ALONE THAT HE HAD SOMETHG AS PREPOSTERO AS A CK RG AROUND HIS NECK. AS LISA MCKENDALL, FORMER MANAGER OF MARKETG AND MUNITNS, SAID AN TERVIEW ABOUT THE DOLL, “WE’RE NOT THE BS OF PUTTG CK RGS TO THE HANDS OF LTLE GIRLS.”REGARDLS OF MATTEL’S TENTNS, ’S HARD TO NY WHAT THE EYE N SEE. DPE THE NAME, CK RGS AT THE TIME WERE ED AS A FASHN ACCSORY AND A SIGN OF FIANT QUEERNS AND SEX POSIVY. AS A RULT, GAY MEN BOUGHT THE DOLL DROV, AND SPE MATTEL ULTIMATELY RELLG THE DOLL AND WIPG AWAY ANY TRACE OF EARRG MAGIC KEN, WAS NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE KEN AS ANYTHG BUT THE GLOR HOMOSEXUAL HE WAS BORN TO BE OM THEN ON. MATTEL SPENT THE NEXT UPLE OF S TRYG TO RETA KEN’S MORE HETERONORMATIVE, MASCULE IMAGE, BUT THE VEIL WAS LIFTED, AND THERE WAS NO GOG BACK. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS BY GETTY/WARNER BROS. THOUGH MATTEL DON’T SEEM TO BE WILLG TO SAY KEN IS ACTUALLY GAY, THE KEN DOLLS OF RECENT YEARS SEEM TO REALLY LEAN TO KEN’S QUEERNS. THE YASSIFITN OF KEN IS CLEARLY UNRWAY. WHILE THERE IS NO WAY TO “DRS GAY,” THERE ARE SEVERAL DOLLS THAT SEEM TO SUGGT OTHERWISE, SUCH AS:FASHNISTA KEN #193, WHO LOOKS VERY EXCED TO TELL YOU ABOUT HIS NEW OBSSN, TROYE SIVAN;TRAVEL KEN DOLL, WHO HAS A SATCHEL PERFECT FOR BATHHO AND A PURPLE OVERNIGHT BAG THAT LERALLY PROCLAIMS HE’S “EXTRA;”KEN LOOKS DOLL, SERVG “I’M GONNA GIVE YOU A MAKEOVER”-TYPE REALNS WHILE SPORTG BLACK PLEATHER PANTS;THIS KEN, WHO WEARS THE LEAST HETEROSEXUAL DOUBLE NIM IMAGABLE.WHILE I HAVE A FEELG THE NEW BARBIE MOVIE WILL PUT THE WORK TO NVCE THAT KEN IS A HETERO DU WHO LOV NOTHG LIFE MORE THAN BARBIE HERSELF, THE WRG’S ALREADY ON THE WALL: KEN IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK.READ MORE OF OUR BARBIE VERAGE HERE. BARRY LEVT

This suggts that while Emem may not be gay himself, he is much more acceptg and open-md when to LGBT rights than he ed to be.

Emem has never directly answered the qutn of whether or not he is actually gay. There are those who believe that Emem is gay based on this small moment The Interview. They pot to the rapper’s long history of g homophobic slurs his songs and say that this uld be his way of g out whout actually sayg directly.

However, there is also pellg evince that suggts Emem is not gay at all.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

One piece of evince agast the theory om an terview Emem did wh 60 Mut back 2003 where terviewer Anrson Cooper asked him if he was gay and got an emphatic “No! Addnally, many have noted that all of the rapper’s songs sce then, there has been no ditn that he is gay or bisexual. Ultimately, we n’t know if Emem is actually gay or not bee there isn’t any ncrete evince eher way—he hasn’t given any five answers or statements on the matter so far.

What we do know though is that spe havg been acced of homophobia the past, he seems to have changed his attu towards LGBT people over time and ma some efforts to make amends for any hurtful ments he may have ma the past.

So while we may never know if Emem is actually gay or not, don’t really matter—what matters most is how acceptg and unrstandg we are of each other regardls of our sexual orientatn or genr inty.

NFL ASSISTANT ACH OUT AS GAY

Anyone who tuned out their fay and tuned The Interview on Xmas day was treated to an Emem meo where the rapper — who is equently acced of homophobia for g the very bad f-word nsistently — out as gay.