According to Dr Daudi Abe, a Seattle-based hip-hop scholar, author and teacher, “the harshness of the roots of are undeniable”. Since its birth in the Seventies, much of hip-hop has been a bastion of swaggering masculinity.
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In doing so, he not only brought extra joy to those celebrating the final day of LGBT Pride, but he also threw fresh focus upon hip-hop’s complex and often very difficult relationship with homosexuality. Pointing to the lyrics of C7osure from his 7 EP, he said: “Some of y’all already know, some of y’all don’t care, some of y’all not gone fwm no more, but before this month ends i want y’all to listen closely to c7osure.”
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The 20-year old rapper and songwriter, a resident of Atlanta whose breakout single stood atop the Billboard 100 for over two weeks – a record-breaking run for a hip-hop artist, shattering marks held by The Black Eyed Peas and Eminem – appeared to reveal via social media that he was gay. On June 30 2019, Lil Nas X, creator of the soaring hit and two-time Grammy winner Old Town Road, sent out a few tweets and everything changed.
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With Lil Nas X symbolically joined last night on stage by a member of rap's old guard, Nas, have we reached a watershed moment in hip-hop? asks Musa Okwonga Country-rap star Lil Nas X made history with Old Town Road, and now, he's the first openly gay rapper to win big at the Grammys.