Young thug i always knew i wasnt gonna be gay

As a transgender lesbian woman who has listened to rap her whole life, nothing scares me anymore. I have become so accustomed to being the butt of the joke that I can predict when a rapper is going to drop a slur based on their rhyme scheme. Unfortunately, the negative lyrics are something I have come to terms with.

Rap music is so integral to my Black identity that sometimes I try to turn a blind eye, like when grandma says something a little strange at the Thanksgiving function. Rarely do I feel seen and heard by the occasionally popular queer rapper; I am usually having my ears harassed by a homophobic year-old dude in a Rocawear hat.

I will share some of the most striking rap lyrics about queerness—lots of which I wish I never heard. While queerphobia has been rooted in the genre since its inception, there has also been a long lineage of allyship developing parallel to it homo hop, an early s subgenre of rap, specifically focused on battling the negative rhetoric way back when.

Perhaps we can laugh at the ridiculousness of the bigotry and embrace the heartwarming moments of queer rappers finding their footing in a position that can be so complex. Who, Sahbabii, who? Who thought you were gay when you had the Uggs on? The rap game?

A singular enby? But surely it makes more sense to hide a gun with a dress and not an…Ugg boot? One of those lines you wish you came up with first. This was one of the first times I had heard an expression of gender queerness that also encapsulated the Black experience.

Her gender identity does not affect her participation in a culture that has molded her. I mean, wow. I have taken seminar-style classes at Vassar but none of those discussions were as fruitful as the one I had with the girls about this line when this song dropped last year.

Was tenkay yelling trans rights? Was he coming off as a chaser? Like, yes, I felt seen I guess? Free Thugger! Victim of the prison industrial system but also grooming. It is daunting how he glides past such a serious issue to focus on a much more minor thing.

Maybe that says something about what hip-hop politics decides to hone in on. In any case, I think it is hilarious that he is admittingly, like, hyper aware of the possibility of being gay. Like he always knew he was not gonna be gay.

Die Slow (With Strick)

From day one he was like, yeah, surely I will not end up like Tommy working at Seafood Palace down the street. I hope we catch that woman though. Actually just insane. There is no bar here! It is just a declaration of a hate crime! Nothing witty about this.