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Initially, to me this wasn’t a big deal because people come out every day, and also it’s their life they can do what they want but the amount of bravery it takes for a rapper to do this especially in the early stages of their career is immense. We’re seeing a lot more rappers coming out now. Thankfully now, mainly within the newer generation of artists we’re seeing some changes, things that will hopefully push the culture in the direction needed for Hip Hop to be a genre where everyone is welcome. Although the culture has made some progression, it’s still probably like a good 6 years behind society in terms of the general acceptance of all people and the LGBT community. For a gay artist to be accepted like that into the culture, unfortunately I think they would have to work twice as hard and be twice as talented compared to an artist who was straight. Take the time where Lil Uzi was wearing a rather feminine shirt for example, the attention that that one picture received was crazy, simply because it was different and regarded too feminine for a ‘rapper’ to be wearing, even prominent figures within the culture were commenting and criticizing it. However, masculinity is still at the forefront and the culture doesn’t associate homosexuality with masculinity unfortunately shown by the treatment any artist shows whenever an artist is wearing something that’s quite feminine, or maybe has painted nails for example, the culture is quick to throw hordes of homophobic slurs that artists way.
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Hip Hop is an incredibly difficult market to crack, there’s millions of aspiring rappers out there, you have to be extremely charismatic, extremely popular, or entertaining, or simply just so nice on the mic that your skills can’t be doubted at the end of the day good music is good music no matter who it comes from. As Daniels is a gay black man who’s explored black male sexuality within the hip hop community in his work (empire for example), and has probably experienced a lot of the homophobia that is still within the culture, I thought this was an interesting claim for him to make. Recently when asked if a gay hip hop artist could hold a platinum record and become successful in this day and age, Lee Daniels, the creator of Empire and openly gay black director, predicted it would happen “sooner than you think” implying that we could even see this as soon as 2018. BEVERLY HILLS, CA – NOVEMBER 09: Director Lee Daniels attends the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Novemin Beverly Hills, California.