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iLoveMakonnen Comes Out as Gay

iLoveMakonnen has come out as gay.

The hip-hop star shared his news with a string of tweets in the small hours of Friday morning. “As a fashion icon, I can&#;t tell u about everybody else&#;s closet, I can only tell u about mine, and it&#;s time I&#;ve arrive out,” he wrote in one tweet.

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He added, “And since y&#;all love breaking news, here&#;s some antique news to shatter, I&#;m gay. And now I&#;ve told u about my life, maybe u can go life yours.”

And he wrapped it all up in a single post on Instagram with the caption, “Thank you for letting me be myself.”

The Atlanta rapper’s social media feeds have been mostly filled with adore and support.

The MC (real name Makonnen Sheran) broke out with the smash &#;Club Goin Up On A Tuesday&#; and was a signing to Drake&#;s OVO Sound. He left the label last year, issuing a statement on his departure:&

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

Audiences possess had the feels for Atlanta-bred crooner-rapper ILoveMakonnen since Known for a dreamy brand of club-hop, via such tracks as “I Don’t Sell Molly No More,” ILoveMakonnen got the attention of Drake with his song “Tuesdays,&#; and the superstar rapper later did a guest feature on a remix version. In short direct, 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 , only to deal with 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

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Hypocrisy and bigotry, sadly, go hand-in-hand. In a new interview with Billboard, the ever-eccentric iLoveMakonnen explains how hip-hop&#;s relationship to gay culture must come to a head as the genre grows in popularity.

&#;It’s prefer, it’s gonna reach to a head eventually, gay and hip-hop,&#; Makonnen said. &#;Because they’re two worlds that experiment to act appreciate they don’t fuck with each other, but they act, very hard. You can listen 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 appear from Atlanta, the known black gay capital of the world. So it’s like, when are we gonna possess 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 ha

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Earlier this week, Taylor Bennett announced on Twitter that he is bisexual. &#;I want to assist others that battle with the identical issues,&#; he wrote.

Possibly inspired by Bennett&#;s courageous act, rapper ILoveMakonnen—best known for his verb single &#;Tuesday&#; and his short-lived tenure signed to Drake&#;s OVO label—revealed prior Friday morning (January 20) that he is, in proof, 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 community that he lived a homosexual lifestyle.

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

“The rap world thinks I’m gay,” he said. “A lot of people out there verb. They think I’m a homosexual, which is not a problem. I don’t want to speak I’m gay, I’m straight, I’m bisexual 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 Atlanta native is right—labeling people based on their sexual