bumping a gay man

That's their gimmick for some like how many modern female rappers rap about their vagina. (It's cool but give us more variety around the topic of sex)

They can't tell the difference

Lil nas is still popular and makonnen was trash

How I get banned for saying f@​g and I like dudes but this man alive and the people who like this post? @Electric

Im telling

What's their gimmick,

Some, not all. Some market themselves as openly rappers to gain fraction, which is great but then musically fall flat. I honestly have yet go to hear a good openly gay rapper. Put me on if you feel otherwise

Boy get over yourself

No it isn't

Queen Latifah
Missy Elliot
Da Brat
MC Lyte

But most celebrities in Hollywood are either privately LGBT or have done Gay acts for gigs and deals periodically.

Just about anyone who has experienced the entertainment industry who speaks on it from the outskirts have had experiences of being propositioned to do gay sexual acts as a gatekeeping measure.

For some, not all.

I have to salute Nas X though for not using it as a selling point but I don't even know what to classify him as an artist. I don't even think he thought he would blow up the way he did.

The only gay rappers Ive ever heard are Nas X,Makonnen and Tyler. All of whom came out post success and didn't push a gimmick.

Lil Nas X fell off after because he's a 1 hit wonder and his song was on its way out

Also you forgot to mention BROCKHAMPTON

Well I don't mean them in particular, they only came out after the fact. The ones I'm talking about are still underground, like dude who made "throw that boy p****" had mad people upset, but apart from that song isn't really good. Next dude was a rapper freestyling to Charlemagne to make him uncomfortable (but we know C is dl) and the bars were trash. This is just based on my personal anecdote

Well said. What’s the discourse around them all being women? OP unintentionally raised the stigma against gay men in Rap while we’ve rebutted with gay women.

Are women more open with their sexuality or is the Black community more accepting of women’s sexuality? If the latter, why?

Y’all making it into something it’s not, and Tyler’s bigger now in the culture than he’s ever been so

If you make good music people are gonna rock with you. If you don't, people won't. It's that simple

Young M.A is the queen fuvk u talking about

as a nigga from the bronx, uhhhh they played a big part my g.

mad as s***

C married, son aint DL in the slightest. He just secure enough to play that s*** up for the audience because he knows how wild unprogressive and easily freaked out the hip hop audience is my g.

Joe Budden's the same way on his podcast. Son played that bobby lytes freestyle cause he knew his mans Mal would feel uncomfortable and he makes jokes based off that Azaelia Banks (for a shorty that claim to be an ally, no one talks about b**** been saying some homophobic things forever) picture that said he'd come out in 2022 'nahmena?

niggas bringing up Tyler and Frank is kinda confirming OP's point.

That's only 2 niggas. One of which aint even really a rapper, and the other one has never really come out and actually said it and keeps kinda tip toeing around it cause even son knows setting a firm stance is gonna lose some audience members.

I remember even in Igor thread on KTT OG some niggas saying that Tyler is just trolling my g.