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iLoveMakonnen Tweets “I’m Gay”
iLoveMakonnen has told his Twitter and Instagram followers that he is gay. The Atlanta artist shared the "old news" on Thursday nighttime via a string of tweets. “As a fashion icon, I can't say u about everybody else's closet, I can only tell u about mine, and it's time I've come out,” he tweeted in one message.
He added, “And since y'all love breaking news, here's some old news to break, I'm queer . And now I've told u about my being, maybe u can move life yours.”
Someone said to me next period they see me, they was gonna fuck me , I said next time I see me, I'm gonna love me up
— Oceanic Makonnen (@iLoveMakonnen5D) January 20, 2017
As a fashion icon, I can't tell u about everybody else's closet, I can only tell u about mine, and it's occasion I've come out.
— Oceanic Makonnen (@iLoveMakonnen5D) January 20, 2017
And since y'all cherish breaking news, here's some old news to interval, I'm gay. And now I've told u about my life, maybe u can go life yours❤
— Oceanic Makonnen (@iLoveMakonnen5D) January 20, 2017
Makonnen later shared a screenshot of his tweets
ILoveMakonnen on Breaking Free of ‘Industry Politics,’ Organism Gay in Hip-Hop and When Things ‘Soured’ With Drake
Audiences hold 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 Sell Molly No More,” ILoveMakonnen got the attention of Drake with his song “Tuesdays,” and the superstar rapper later did a guest movie on a remix version. In brief order, ILoveMakonnen was signed to Drake’s OVO Sound imprint.
But things went from rosy to uneven as ILoveMakonnen create himself dissatisfied with the label’s view of his place and his melody. He left dramatically and moved to OVO’s parent firm, 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 new label (Own Timeless Magic) and a new album, “My Parade,” which returns the musician to the harmony–heavy soul and folk that he started his career with, independently, in 2011.
ILoveMakonnen wears his liberty well, as he first displayed when he came o
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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 partnership to gay identity must come to a head as the genre grows in popularity.
“It’s enjoy, it’s gonna arrive to a top eventually, gay and hip-hop,” Makonnen said. “Because they’re two worlds that strive to act appreciate they don’t fuck with each other, but they execute, very hard. You can listen to any rapper and they’ll tell you about a same-sex attracted 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 same-sex attracted designer clothes. You guys all reach from Atlanta, the known black lgbtq+ capital of the world. So it’s like, when are we gonna include this conversation? You’re so anti-gay, but you support same-sex attracted brands? You can’t support a homosexual man, you can support a same-sex attracted 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 own on the whole to realize that their homophobia runs deeper than easy slu
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Earlier this week, Taylor Bennett announced on Twitter that he is bisexual. “I want to support others that struggle with the same issues,” he wrote.
Possibly inspired by Bennett’s courageous act, rapper ILoveMakonnen—best famous for his hit single “Tuesday” and his short-lived tenure signed to Drake’s OVO label—revealed initial 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 community 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 homosexual, which is not a problem. I don’t want to say I’m gay, I’m linear, 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