Ilovemakonnen gay

Hypocrisy and bigotry, sadly, travel hand-in-hand. In a fresh interview with Billboard, the ever-eccentric iLoveMakonnen explains how hip-hop’s relationship to same-sex attracted culture must come to a head as the genre grows in popularity.

“It’s like, it’s gonna arrive to a head eventually, gay and hip-hop,” Makonnen said. “Because they’re two worlds that try to act like they don’t fuck with each other, but they do, very hard. You can monitor to any rapper and they’ll tell you about a gay designer, more than their female counterparts. Sooner or later, people are gonna have to be like, ‘okay, what is it?’ Because I keep hearing about all the gay designers, seeing you guys in all the gay designer clothes. You guys all arrive from Atlanta, the acknowledged black gay capital of the world. So it’s like, when are we gonna have this conversation? You’re so anti-gay, but you support gay brands? You can’t support a gay man, you can support a gay brand?

Here, iLoveMakonnen is spotlighting a very common type of hypocrisy that is not unique to hip-hop but rather speaks to the struggle people have on the whole to recognize that their homophobia runs deeper than simple slu

ILoveMakonnen on Breaking Free of ‘Industry Politics,’ Being Gay in Hip-Hop and When Things ‘Soured’ With Drake

Audiences have had the feels for Atlanta-bred crooner-rapper ILoveMakonnen since 2014. Known for a dreamy brand of club-hop, via such tracks as “I Don’t Exchange Molly No More,” ILoveMakonnen got the attention of Drake with his tune “Tuesdays,” and the superstar rapper later did a guest feature on a remix version. In brief order, ILoveMakonnen was signed to Drake’s OVO Sound imprint.

But things went from rosy to rough as ILoveMakonnen found himself dissatisfied with the label’s view of his place and his music. He left dramatically and moved to OVO’s parent company, Warner Brothers (now Warner Records), in 2016, only to face similar obstacles.

For his 32nd birthday earlier this month, ILoveMakonnen gave himself a present: a unused label (Own Timeless Magic) and a new album, “My Parade,” which returns the artist to the harmony–heavy soul and folk that he started his career with, independently, in 2011.

ILoveMakonnen wears his independence well, as he first displayed when he came o

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Earlier this week, Taylor Bennett announced on Twitter that he is bisexual. “I want to help others that struggle with the same issues,” he wrote. 

Possibly inspired by Bennett’s courageous act, rapper ILoveMakonnen—best known for his hit single “Tuesday” and his short-lived tenure signed to Drake’s OVO label—revealed early Friday morning (January 20) that he is, in fact, gay.

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Makonnen’s “here some old news to break” comment in the above tweet is in reference to growing speculation within the rap collective that he lived a homosexual lifestyle.

In a New York Times profile in May 2015, Joe Coscarelli asked him about the rumors:

“The rap world thinks I’m gay,” he said. “A lot of people out there do. They think I’m a lesbian, which is not a problem. I don’t need to say I’m male lover, I’m straight, I’m pansexual or any of that, because that’s just. …” he said, trailing off. “Who cares? All that’s doing is dividing us.”

While his answer was purposely ambiguous, the

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