Hip-Hop Artists Who Embrace Beg Gay, Lbian or Bisexual - XXL

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• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• SAVE OR SPEND: WARDROBE PICKS FOR YOUR BUDGETOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTURECAK DA KILLA: HOW THE RAPPER SAYS HE FOUND HIS VOICE AMID HOMOPHOBIA HIP-HOP7:15UNPACKG HIP-HOP'S PAST, FUTURE, AND PRENT LGBTQ BYDEENA ZAVIO BYELISA TANGNOVEMBER 02, 2021, 4:01 AMWHEN LIL NAS X ME OUT AS GAY 2019, THE RAPPER WAS ALREADY AN TERNATNAL SENSATN. HIS FIRST SGLE, "OLD TOWN ROAD," FEATURG BILLY RAY CYS, WHICH BLENDS UNTRY SOUNDS WH RAP MIC, HAD GONE VIRAL.WHILE MANY PRAISED THE RISG STAR FOR G OUT, AN TERVIEW WH THE BBC AT THE TIME, THE GRAMMY-WNG RAPPER REFLECTED ON SOME OF THE BACKLASH HE EXPERIENCED OM PEOPLE WH BOTH GENR."ESPECIALLY WH THE UNTRY AND THE HIP-HOP MUNI ... ’S NOT REALLY ACCEPTED EHER," LIL NAS X SAID.LIL NAS X BOUGHT 'OLD TOWN ROAD' BEAT FOR $30: THE STORY AND THE MOVEMENT BEHD THE RERD-BREAKG H'S MAKGHOMOPHOBIA HIP-HOP AGA BEME A NATNAL TOPIC OF DISCSN OVER THE SUMMER WHEN RAPPER DABABY MA ANTI-LGBTQ MENTS, WHICH CLUD MISRMATN ABOUT HIV, THAT WERE WILY CRICIZED AS HOMOPHOBIC BY CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AND VAR ARTISTS.LIL NAS X ATTENDS ATTENDS AN EVENT ON OCT. 20, 2021, ATLANTA.PRCE WILLIAMS/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGAFTER NEARLY A MONTH OF MOUNTG CRICISM, DABABY APOLOGIZED AUGT DURG A MEETG WH GLAAD AND BLACK HIV ADVOT OM VAR ANIZATNS.HIP-HOP JOURNALIST DAVEY D TOLD ABC NEWS THAT "HIP-HOP MIRRORS SOCIETY," AND LARGE SEGMENTS OF AMERIN SOCIETY, MASCULY IS "NARROWLY FED" WH ELEMENTS OF "ROUGHNS AND TOUGHNS," AND "TO LARGE SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATN, THAT DON'T CLU BEG GAY.""THAT WILL FOREVER BE A CHALLENGE, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE SEE A LARGER BODY OF PEOPLE -- WHICH I SEE IS GROWG -- E AND REFE [THAT] LANDSPE," HE SAID.LIL NAS X EXPLAS WHY HE FELT WAS HIS 'DUTY' TO E OUT DURG HEIGHT OF HIS 'OLD TOWN ROAD' FAMEONE OF THOSE PEOPLE REFERENCED BY DAVEY D IS RAPPER CAK DA KILLA.RAPPER CAK DA KILLA POS FOR A PORTRA.LISSYELLE LARICCHIACAK DA KILLA, WHOSE FULL NAME IS RASHARD BRADSHAW, RELEASED HIS LATT EP "MUVALAND VOL. 2" JULY, AND HE RELEASED HIS SHORT FILM "VISIBILY SUCKS" AUGT, A SEMI-BGRAPHIL PRODUCTN THAT TELLS THE STORY OF A STGGLG ARTIST.THE RAPPER, WHO IS KNOWN FOR HS SUCH AS "DON DADA" AND ALSO FOR MIXG ELEMENTS OF HIP-HOP WH HOE AND ELECTRONIC SOUNDS, CREDED SOCIAL MEDIA WH GIVG A PLATFORM TO ARTISTS LIKE HIMSELF."I'M A PRODUCT OF SOCIAL MEDIA," HE TOLD ABC NEWS. "I DON'T THK WHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA THAT ARTISTS LIKE CAK DA KILLA [WOULD] HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TOUR TERNATNALLY ... BEE THERE WAS NO WAY HELL THE DTRY WAS GONNA LET ME ."OVER THE PAST , THE RAPPER BEME A PROMENT VOICE FOR LGBTQ REPRENTATN HIP-HOP AFTER HE RVED A PLACE FOR HIMSELF THE UNRGROUND SCENE.LIL NAS X MAK WAV WH EMOTNALLY CHARGED BUT ALBUM 'MONTERO'THE RAPPER, WHO STARTED HIS REER AS AN OPENLY GAY ARTIST ABOUT A AGO NEW YORK CY, SAID THAT HE IS OFTEN ASKED TO WEIGH ON THE TOPIC OF HOMOPHOBIA WH HIP-HOP AND RELLED HIS APPEARANCE 2014 ON THE INIC HIP-HOP STATN HOT 97 AS A GUT ON "EBRO THE MORNG."FOR CAK, WAS A REER HIGHLIGHT, BUT HE ADMTED THAT THE NVERSATN "FELT WEIRD" BEE HE WAS ASKED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY. THAT’S WHEN HE SAID HE REALIZED THAT BEG A GAY RAPPER WAS A TOPIC OF DISCSN THE MEDIA."IT WAS BASILLY LIKE, IF YOU'RE GAY AND YOU GO TO LLEGE, AND THEN YOU E BACK HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, AND YOU HAVE TO TALK TO LIKE YOUR UNCLE, WHO DON'T KNOW ANY GAY PEOPLE ABOUT LIKE, BEG GAY," HE SAID, SCRIBG THE NVERSATN.DABABY PERFORMS AT HARD ROCK STADIUM ON JULY 25, 2021, MIAMI GARNS, FLA.RICH FURY/GETTY IMAG, FILELZ GRANRSON, HOST OF ABC NEWS’ “LIFE OUT LOUD,” TOLD ABC NEWS THAT DABABY'S MENTS WERE AN EXAMPLE OF THE "TOXIC MASCULY" PRENT WH THE GENRE OF HIP-HOP THAT OFTEN PLAYS TO HOW ARTISTS PRENT THEMSELV THROUGH THEIR PUBLIC IMAGE AND THEIR MIC."THERE N BE RITUR OF MASCULY AND TOXIC MASCULY … AND THAT IS UNFORTUNATE," GRANRSON SAID. "BEE AS WE KNOW, WHAT THAT DO IS CREATE A SUATN THAT MAK SEEM AS IF MISOGYNY, HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA ARE ACCEPTABLE TO NOT JT HIP-HOP MIC, BUT THE CULTURE OF HIP-HOP."ASKED ABOUT THE BACKLASH AGAST DABABY, CAK SAID THAT THOUGH HAVG NVERSATNS ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA WH HIP-HOP IS IMPORTANT, HE FEELS THAT THE "MORE MEANGFUL NVERSATN" IS TO "BRG TO THE HOE.""FOR ME, I DON'T RE WHAT DABABY THKS. MY MA THG IS LIKE, WHAT DO MY NT FEEL ABOUT ME BEG GAY? YOU KNOW, LIKE, WHAT DO MY MOTHER FEEL LIKE? YOU KNOW, I THK WHEN WE START HAVG NVERSATNS ON THAT TYPE OF LEVEL ... TO ME, THAT'S MORE BENEFICIAL," HE SAID.RASHARD BRADSHAW, KNOWN AS CAK DA KILLA, IS PICTURED AS A CHILD AN UNDATED FAY PHOTO.COURTY CAK DA KILLAAS A CHILD GROWG UP THE LATE 1990S NEW JERSEY, CAK SAID THAT NVERSATNS ABOUT GAY RIGHTS WERE MISSG OM THE MASTREAM DIALOGUE, AND WASN’T UNTIL HE WATCHED A DOCUMENTARY THAT EXAMED THE STONEWALL UPRISG THAT HE WAS ABLE TO FD THE LANGUAGE THAT BT SCRIB HIS INTY.THE DOCUMENTARY WAS ABOUT THE 1969 POLICE RAID ON THE STONEWALL INN, A POPULAR BAR FOR THE GAY MUNY THE GREENWICH VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEW YORK, WHICH SPARKED A SERI OF RTS THAT LED TO THE RISE OF A GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT."THAT GAVE ME THE LANGUAGE TO BE LIKE, I KNOW WHO I AM. THIS IS WHAT I AM. I'M NOT DIFFERENT. I'M NOT ALONE. AND I WAS ABLE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, AN INTY," HE SAID. "SO OM THEN, YEAH, I WAS ABLE TO TELL MY MOM THAT I WAS GAY."A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE THE POLICE RAID AT THE STONEWALL INN NIGHTCLUB NEW YORK CY, JUNE 28, 1969.NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE VIA GETTY IMAG, FILEHE WAS THE THIRD GRA AT THE TIME.CAK SAID THAT WHILE HIS MOTHER WAS IALLY "SHELL-SHOCKED" BEE SHE WAS NOT PREPARED FOR HIM TO E OUT, PECIALLY AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE, BUT "SHE END UP G AROUND TO ."THE RAPPER SAID THAT HAVG A SUPPORT SYSTEM OF IENDS AND FAY IS IMPORTANT, "AND BEG GAY AND BEG BLACK, WE HAVE THAT DOWN PAT, BEE WE'RE OUTLIERS TO THE WORLD A LOT OF THE TIME."RASHARD BRADSHAW, KNOWN AS CAK DA KILLA, IS PICTURED AS A CHILD AN UNDATED FAY PHOTO.COURTY CAK DA KILLABUT HE SAID THAT HIS JOURNEY, "THE SUPPORT STARTED WH MYSELF."CAK SAID THAT FOR HIM, IS IMPORTANT TO REJECT THE "VICTIM NARRATIVE" AND EMBRACE A NARRATIVE OF EMPOWERMENT, SPE THE CHALLENG THAT HE FAC THE DTRY."JT BEG A BLACK MALE ARTIST, Y, THERE ARE GOG TO BE PEOPLE THAT DO NOT AGREE WH EFFEMACY OR TWO MEN KISSG OR THGS LIKE THAT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THK WHAT'S SO BETIFUL ABOUT THE TIME THAT WE'RE NOW [IS] PEOPLE HAVE THE PLATFORM TO JT DO ANYWAY," HE SAID.RAPPER CAK DA KILLA POS FOR A PORTRA.LISSYELLE LARICCHIA"EVERYONE IS NOT GONNA AGREE WH WHAT YOU FEEL. AND I DON'T EXIST TO MAKE EVERYONE LIKE ME. THAT'S VERY DRAG … FOR ME, I'M EMPOWERED BY JT EXISTG," HE ADD.ABC NEWS' MIH WASHGTON NTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.UP NEXT CULTURE—LUPA NYONG'O REMEMBERS CHADWICK BOSEMAN EMOTNAL TRIBUTE 3 YEARS AFTER HIS ATHAUGT 28, 2023MILEY CYS ON HOW HER PERSPECTIVE ON FAME AND SUCCS IS DIFFERENT OM HER DADAUGT 28, 2023KHLOE KARDASHIAN SHAR SWEET PHOTO WH HER 2 KIDS: 'MOMMY'S CUBS'AUGT 28, 2023'DANCG WH THE STARS' JUDGE DEREK HOUGH MARRI HAYLEY ERBERTAUGT 28, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—LUPA NYONG'O REMEMBERS CHADWICK BOSEMAN EMOTNAL TRIBUTE 3 YEARS AFTER HIS ATHAUGT 28, 2023MILEY CYS ON HOW HER PERSPECTIVE ON FAME AND SUCCS IS DIFFERENT OM HER DADAUGT 28, 2023KHLOE KARDASHIAN SHAR SWEET PHOTO WH HER 2 KIDS: 'MOMMY'S CUBS'AUGT 28, 2023'DANCG WH THE STARS' JUDGE DEREK HOUGH MARRI HAYLEY ERBERTAUGT 28, 2023
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

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

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.

To celebrate the ntributns the artists have ma to the hip-hop scene, here are the top 30 gay rappers.

21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

ChikaBt Gay Rappers – Fal Thoughts.

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.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

Mista Strange, a drill rapper om Bra, has shared his experience of beg a publicly gay rapper and how often leads to unrtimatn.

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.

SAVE OR SPEND: WARDROBE PICKS FOR YOUR BUDGETOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTURECAK DA KILLA: HOW THE RAPPER SAYS HE FOUND HIS VOICE AMID HOMOPHOBIA HIP-HOP7:15UNPACKG HIP-HOP'S PAST, FUTURE, AND PRENT LGBTQ BYDEENA ZAVIO BYELISA TANGNOVEMBER 02, 2021, 4:01 AMWHEN LIL NAS X ME OUT AS GAY 2019, THE RAPPER WAS ALREADY AN TERNATNAL SENSATN. HIS FIRST SGLE, "OLD TOWN ROAD," FEATURG BILLY RAY CYS, WHICH BLENDS UNTRY SOUNDS WH RAP MIC, HAD GONE VIRAL.WHILE MANY PRAISED THE RISG STAR FOR G OUT, AN TERVIEW WH THE BBC AT THE TIME, THE GRAMMY-WNG RAPPER REFLECTED ON SOME OF THE BACKLASH HE EXPERIENCED OM PEOPLE WH BOTH GENR."ESPECIALLY WH THE UNTRY AND THE HIP-HOP MUNI ... ’S NOT REALLY ACCEPTED EHER," LIL NAS X SAID.LIL NAS X BOUGHT 'OLD TOWN ROAD' BEAT FOR $30: THE STORY AND THE MOVEMENT BEHD THE RERD-BREAKG H'S MAKGHOMOPHOBIA HIP-HOP AGA BEME A NATNAL TOPIC OF DISCSN OVER THE SUMMER WHEN RAPPER DABABY MA ANTI-LGBTQ MENTS, WHICH CLUD MISRMATN ABOUT HIV, THAT WERE WILY CRICIZED AS HOMOPHOBIC BY CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AND VAR ARTISTS.LIL NAS X ATTENDS ATTENDS AN EVENT ON OCT. 20, 2021, ATLANTA.PRCE WILLIAMS/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGAFTER NEARLY A MONTH OF MOUNTG CRICISM, DABABY APOLOGIZED AUGT DURG A MEETG WH GLAAD AND BLACK HIV ADVOT OM VAR ANIZATNS.HIP-HOP JOURNALIST DAVEY D TOLD ABC NEWS THAT "HIP-HOP MIRRORS SOCIETY," AND LARGE SEGMENTS OF AMERIN SOCIETY, MASCULY IS "NARROWLY FED" WH ELEMENTS OF "ROUGHNS AND TOUGHNS," AND "TO LARGE SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATN, THAT DON'T CLU BEG GAY.""THAT WILL FOREVER BE A CHALLENGE, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE SEE A LARGER BODY OF PEOPLE -- WHICH I SEE IS GROWG -- E AND REFE [THAT] LANDSPE," HE SAID.LIL NAS X EXPLAS WHY HE FELT WAS HIS 'DUTY' TO E OUT DURG HEIGHT OF HIS 'OLD TOWN ROAD' FAMEONE OF THOSE PEOPLE REFERENCED BY DAVEY D IS RAPPER CAK DA KILLA.RAPPER CAK DA KILLA POS FOR A PORTRA.LISSYELLE LARICCHIACAK DA KILLA, WHOSE FULL NAME IS RASHARD BRADSHAW, RELEASED HIS LATT EP "MUVALAND VOL. 2" JULY, AND HE RELEASED HIS SHORT FILM "VISIBILY SUCKS" AUGT, A SEMI-BGRAPHIL PRODUCTN THAT TELLS THE STORY OF A STGGLG ARTIST.THE RAPPER, WHO IS KNOWN FOR HS SUCH AS "DON DADA" AND ALSO FOR MIXG ELEMENTS OF HIP-HOP WH HOE AND ELECTRONIC SOUNDS, CREDED SOCIAL MEDIA WH GIVG A PLATFORM TO ARTISTS LIKE HIMSELF."I'M A PRODUCT OF SOCIAL MEDIA," HE TOLD ABC NEWS. "I DON'T THK WHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA THAT ARTISTS LIKE CAK DA KILLA [WOULD] HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TOUR TERNATNALLY ... BEE THERE WAS NO WAY HELL THE DTRY WAS GONNA LET ME ."OVER THE PAST , THE RAPPER BEME A PROMENT VOICE FOR LGBTQ REPRENTATN HIP-HOP AFTER HE RVED A PLACE FOR HIMSELF THE UNRGROUND SCENE.LIL NAS X MAK WAV WH EMOTNALLY CHARGED BUT ALBUM 'MONTERO'THE RAPPER, WHO STARTED HIS REER AS AN OPENLY GAY ARTIST ABOUT A AGO NEW YORK CY, SAID THAT HE IS OFTEN ASKED TO WEIGH ON THE TOPIC OF HOMOPHOBIA WH HIP-HOP AND RELLED HIS APPEARANCE 2014 ON THE INIC HIP-HOP STATN HOT 97 AS A GUT ON "EBRO THE MORNG."FOR CAK, WAS A REER HIGHLIGHT, BUT HE ADMTED THAT THE NVERSATN "FELT WEIRD" BEE HE WAS ASKED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY. THAT’S WHEN HE SAID HE REALIZED THAT BEG A GAY RAPPER WAS A TOPIC OF DISCSN THE MEDIA."IT WAS BASILLY LIKE, IF YOU'RE GAY AND YOU GO TO LLEGE, AND THEN YOU E BACK HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, AND YOU HAVE TO TALK TO LIKE YOUR UNCLE, WHO DON'T KNOW ANY GAY PEOPLE ABOUT LIKE, BEG GAY," HE SAID, SCRIBG THE NVERSATN.DABABY PERFORMS AT HARD ROCK STADIUM ON JULY 25, 2021, MIAMI GARNS, FLA.RICH FURY/GETTY IMAG, FILELZ GRANRSON, HOST OF ABC NEWS’ “LIFE OUT LOUD,” TOLD ABC NEWS THAT DABABY'S MENTS WERE AN EXAMPLE OF THE "TOXIC MASCULY" PRENT WH THE GENRE OF HIP-HOP THAT OFTEN PLAYS TO HOW ARTISTS PRENT THEMSELV THROUGH THEIR PUBLIC IMAGE AND THEIR MIC."THERE N BE RITUR OF MASCULY AND TOXIC MASCULY … AND THAT IS UNFORTUNATE," GRANRSON SAID. "BEE AS WE KNOW, WHAT THAT DO IS CREATE A SUATN THAT MAK SEEM AS IF MISOGYNY, HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA ARE ACCEPTABLE TO NOT JT HIP-HOP MIC, BUT THE CULTURE OF HIP-HOP."ASKED ABOUT THE BACKLASH AGAST DABABY, CAK SAID THAT THOUGH HAVG NVERSATNS ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA WH HIP-HOP IS IMPORTANT, HE FEELS THAT THE "MORE MEANGFUL NVERSATN" IS TO "BRG TO THE HOE.""FOR ME, I DON'T RE WHAT DABABY THKS. MY MA THG IS LIKE, WHAT DO MY NT FEEL ABOUT ME BEG GAY? YOU KNOW, LIKE, WHAT DO MY MOTHER FEEL LIKE? YOU KNOW, I THK WHEN WE START HAVG NVERSATNS ON THAT TYPE OF LEVEL ... TO ME, THAT'S MORE BENEFICIAL," HE SAID.RASHARD BRADSHAW, KNOWN AS CAK DA KILLA, IS PICTURED AS A CHILD AN UNDATED FAY PHOTO.COURTY CAK DA KILLAAS A CHILD GROWG UP THE LATE 1990S NEW JERSEY, CAK SAID THAT NVERSATNS ABOUT GAY RIGHTS WERE MISSG OM THE MASTREAM DIALOGUE, AND WASN’T UNTIL HE WATCHED A DOCUMENTARY THAT EXAMED THE STONEWALL UPRISG THAT HE WAS ABLE TO FD THE LANGUAGE THAT BT SCRIB HIS INTY.THE DOCUMENTARY WAS ABOUT THE 1969 POLICE RAID ON THE STONEWALL INN, A POPULAR BAR FOR THE GAY MUNY THE GREENWICH VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEW YORK, WHICH SPARKED A SERI OF RTS THAT LED TO THE RISE OF A GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT."THAT GAVE ME THE LANGUAGE TO BE LIKE, I KNOW WHO I AM. THIS IS WHAT I AM. I'M NOT DIFFERENT. I'M NOT ALONE. AND I WAS ABLE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, AN INTY," HE SAID. "SO OM THEN, YEAH, I WAS ABLE TO TELL MY MOM THAT I WAS GAY."A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE THE POLICE RAID AT THE STONEWALL INN NIGHTCLUB NEW YORK CY, JUNE 28, 1969.NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE VIA GETTY IMAG, FILEHE WAS THE THIRD GRA AT THE TIME.CAK SAID THAT WHILE HIS MOTHER WAS IALLY "SHELL-SHOCKED" BEE SHE WAS NOT PREPARED FOR HIM TO E OUT, PECIALLY AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE, BUT "SHE END UP G AROUND TO ."THE RAPPER SAID THAT HAVG A SUPPORT SYSTEM OF IENDS AND FAY IS IMPORTANT, "AND BEG GAY AND BEG BLACK, WE HAVE THAT DOWN PAT, BEE WE'RE OUTLIERS TO THE WORLD A LOT OF THE TIME."RASHARD BRADSHAW, KNOWN AS CAK DA KILLA, IS PICTURED AS A CHILD AN UNDATED FAY PHOTO.COURTY CAK DA KILLABUT HE SAID THAT HIS JOURNEY, "THE SUPPORT STARTED WH MYSELF."CAK SAID THAT FOR HIM, IS IMPORTANT TO REJECT THE "VICTIM NARRATIVE" AND EMBRACE A NARRATIVE OF EMPOWERMENT, SPE THE CHALLENG THAT HE FAC THE DTRY."JT BEG A BLACK MALE ARTIST, Y, THERE ARE GOG TO BE PEOPLE THAT DO NOT AGREE WH EFFEMACY OR TWO MEN KISSG OR THGS LIKE THAT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THK WHAT'S SO BETIFUL ABOUT THE TIME THAT WE'RE NOW [IS] PEOPLE HAVE THE PLATFORM TO JT DO ANYWAY," HE SAID.RAPPER CAK DA KILLA POS FOR A PORTRA.LISSYELLE LARICCHIA"EVERYONE IS NOT GONNA AGREE WH WHAT YOU FEEL. AND I DON'T EXIST TO MAKE EVERYONE LIKE ME. THAT'S VERY DRAG … FOR ME, I'M EMPOWERED BY JT EXISTG," HE ADD.ABC NEWS' MIH WASHGTON NTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.UP NEXT CULTURE—LUPA NYONG'O REMEMBERS CHADWICK BOSEMAN EMOTNAL TRIBUTE 3 YEARS AFTER HIS ATHAUGT 28, 2023MILEY CYS ON HOW HER PERSPECTIVE ON FAME AND SUCCS IS DIFFERENT OM HER DADAUGT 28, 2023KHLOE KARDASHIAN SHAR SWEET PHOTO WH HER 2 KIDS: 'MOMMY'S CUBS'AUGT 28, 2023'DANCG WH THE STARS' JUDGE DEREK HOUGH MARRI HAYLEY ERBERTAUGT 28, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—LUPA NYONG'O REMEMBERS CHADWICK BOSEMAN EMOTNAL TRIBUTE 3 YEARS AFTER HIS ATHAUGT 28, 2023MILEY CYS ON HOW HER PERSPECTIVE ON FAME AND SUCCS IS DIFFERENT OM HER DADAUGT 28, 2023KHLOE KARDASHIAN SHAR SWEET PHOTO WH HER 2 KIDS: 'MOMMY'S CUBS'AUGT 28, 2023'DANCG WH THE STARS' JUDGE DEREK HOUGH MARRI HAYLEY ERBERTAUGT 28, 2023

However, did you know that he also openly clared his homosexualy on Twter? 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.

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

He rmed iNews Bra that homophobia is not solely prent hip-hop mic.

Cak da Killa believ that every genre of mic has homophobic dividuals.