First 2016 post

When you thinking of hip hop or Rap what do you think of? Guns? Violence? The Hood? Weed? Well, I imagine that out of all the different words that came to mind homosexuality and/or gay if so we are probably on the same page lol. To most the idea of homosexuality and hip-hop are like fire and water and it is not an unreasonable assertion since when the do mix it’s in the form of “Faggot” or “Fag”. But it’s 2016 and things are changing last year the oil and water mix were able to produce some explosive results. Last year the controversial song Throw That Boy Pussy by Young Fly Red, a young African American Queer Rapper from New Orleans. Initially, the song got a lot of pushback, even I had to listen to it a few time before I liked it but know it has over 2 million views.

Well, The Huffington Post did a brief interview with Franklin Randall (Young Fly Red) discussing his music as well as his past and goals. But the part of the article that has a very strong rhetoric they have quotes of big name rappers supporting homosexuality as well as queer/gay rappers. The Ethos that is produced from this point on is impossible to argue with, artists such as Frank Ocean, Kanye West, A$AP ROCKY, Fat joe, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, T.I., Russell Simmons, Tyler the Creator, 50 Cent, Beyonce, and Eminem. If you read the Rhetoric  behind the whole article it’s definitely in full support of Queer artist but LGBTQ.