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IS YOUNG THUG THE FIRST GAY THUG RAPPER?

Boosie Badazz thks gangster rappers who are gay should stay the closet. * gay gangster rap *

"But, perhaps the most tertg aspect of Young Thug's reer, is appears he may be the first openly gay gangster rapper to achieve natnal A$AP Rocky and Kanye Wt, Thug wears a lot of effemate clothg.

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Like n*gga, I drs like I'm gay.

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And I might look like I'm gay. But I'm one of the harst n*ggas this motherf*cker, you feel me"Lil B went on to drop the I'm Gay mixtape (no wasn't his first real album, we still have to wa for that), but wh the weak veat subtle (I'm Happy) and statements that the tle's meang is that words are Wt has plans to marry Kim Kardashian spe longstandg mors that he is gay, and his proclivy towards female three have associated wh vague crimaly to var gre (Kanye the least), and they've all flirted wh a rap taboo: the tradnal athetics of femy and homosexualy. Dpe R&B sger and wildly unrrated rapper, Frank Ocean, g out as bisexual, and the massive succs of pretend homosexual Macklemore, the fear of gayns rap mic is thrivg.

Wt, Lil B and A$AP Rocky both embrace homosexualy as servg equaly, and some of s tradnal wardrobe, but are quick to proclaim their heterosexualy if any ser qutng is Thug is takg thgs to the next level, both creatively, and wears a "monic animal prt tutu" as scribed by one vio qutng his sexualy. "There are several siar posts to this one on his Instagram, wh sr of fur, homophobic ments lg rappers who proclaim themselv thugs, rap about guns or sellg dgs (even on ocsn Kanye, who trapped leather joggg pants extensively 2000, BEFORE anyone was on that) and flirt wh gayns. Atlanta, Thug's hometown, is known as one of the gayt ci on earth.

Southern homophobia might as well be a law of physics, so as Thug's populary swells, what will be the rult? It's long been predicted that the first mega-succsful, openly gay rapper would be a hardre gangster act. Gangster Fag even attempted to bee that gay crossover act, but unfortunately, to no rults.

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Perhaps his bluntns, Thug is showg that the first openly gay rapper won't have to officially clare .

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Like wh Michael Sam, and the discsn of the potential "distractn" he pos, the real issu of fg sexualy are left to those who are Sam is a distractn, or Thug shouldn't be a mastream, gay gangster rapper, that says more about the securi of the world around them. It's easy to pull one le om a homophobic tough-guy gangsta rapper that, on s own, mak him sound ravenoly gay.

And we say that bee we're fuckg hard, not gay. Snoop, Ice-T Discs Homosexualy Hip Hop When risg R&B star and Odd Future sger Frank Ocean revealed his first love was a man on Inpennce Day, there were immediate and very public displays of support.

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But a few weeks later, sort of remd everyone that there still hasn't been a sgle popular, openly-gay rapper.

Most recently, Havoc claimed his Mobb Deep partner Prodigy had gay sex prison. So clearly, hip hop and homosexualy still have a nflicted relatnship (I gus 2001's Emem/Elton John duet didn't permanently heal that rift).

IS YOUNG THUG THE FIRST GAY THUG RAPPER?

Recently, Snoop Dogg and Ice-T weighed on the much-discsed yet still mythic possibily of an openly gay rapper emergg. "There might be some gay rappers hip hop that's havg succs, for real, you never know, " Snoop Dogg recently said. Although he recently revented himself as the reggae-sgg, peace-md Snoop Ln, he has a history of droppg gay slurs.

" Gangsta rap legend turned Co-lovg realy TV star Ice-T was ls enamored wh the ia of a gay rapper when asked about recently, though. "It would be difficult to listen to a gay gangster rapper, " he said. "So why do the hip hop world have such an aversn to homosexualy?

Nicki Maj once offered her two cents: "People view gay men as havg no street credibily, " she said. "Even if a proudly gay rapper has yet to emerge, several straight MCs have e out support of gay rights.

EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS

Macklemore released a pro-gay marriage track earlier this year and recently told how growg up wh gay uncl fluenced his outlook on the subject. Is hip hop culture ready for a gay male rapper? In Boosie Badazzy's latt Vlad TV terview, Vlad suggted to Boosie, a noted mentator on LGBTQ topics, that was beg OK to be gay Hip Hop.

You gotta unrstand if you gay as a gangster rapper, 's over. F*ck how they feel si, they gay as f*ck but they protectg somethg.

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