2:10 pm - 09/24/2012
Russell Simmons has hailed Frank Ocean's coming out, calling him a catalyst for acceptance of gay rappers.
“The fans are more tolerant,” hip-hop mogul Simmons told gay glossy Details. “A catalyst with courage like Frank Ocean making public statements like that can flourish.”
Ocean, 24 and a member of the collective Odd Future, has been credited as the first mainstream hip-hop artist to come out. He released his latest album, Channel Orange, shortly after his announcement.
However, Andreana Clay, the author of The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back, told Details, “There's always been a 'queer' presence in hip-hop.”
But acceptance has been hard-won. While strains of resistant homophobia still run through reggae, country, and metal, rap is responsible for the most explicitly antigay rants to ever go platinum, from Eazy E ("This is one ****** that I had to hurt") to Eminem ("Hate fags? The answer's 'yes'") to Cam'ron's popularization of the phrase "No Homo"—which Chris Brown directed at Ocean. Yet some surprising members of the hip-hop community rushed to Ocean's defense, like 50 Cent, who told reporters, "Anyone who has an issue with Frank Ocean is an idiot."
“[T]here are artists like Andre 3000 and Lil Wayne, who vacillate between challenging and upholding a hypermasculine identity – these performers have helped create a space for 'out' identities in the mainstream,” she said.
Ultimately, the artists in this portfolio are linked by their sexuality, but queerness is not a genre of music. It's just one facet of who they are—and just one way in which they're pushing hip-hop forward.
Details goes on to profile other queer rappers, including Mykki Blanco, Le1f, Nicky Da B, House of Ladosha, Cakes Da Killa and Big Dipper.
A video for Cakes Da Killa's Mussy Mayhem, in which he raps, “I got the kinda ass; Turn a saint into a homo,” is embedded on this page.
Channel Orange Hits 500k In Worldwide Sales
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Russell Simmons Calls Frank Ocean A "Catalyst" For Hip-Hop + Updated Sales
Russell Simmons has hailed Frank Ocean's coming out, calling him a catalyst for acceptance of gay rappers.
“The fans are more tolerant,” hip-hop mogul Simmons told gay glossy Details. “A catalyst with courage like Frank Ocean making public statements like that can flourish.”
Ocean, 24 and a member of the collective Odd Future, has been credited as the first mainstream hip-hop artist to come out. He released his latest album, Channel Orange, shortly after his announcement.
However, Andreana Clay, the author of The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back, told Details, “There's always been a 'queer' presence in hip-hop.”
But acceptance has been hard-won. While strains of resistant homophobia still run through reggae, country, and metal, rap is responsible for the most explicitly antigay rants to ever go platinum, from Eazy E ("This is one ****** that I had to hurt") to Eminem ("Hate fags? The answer's 'yes'") to Cam'ron's popularization of the phrase "No Homo"—which Chris Brown directed at Ocean. Yet some surprising members of the hip-hop community rushed to Ocean's defense, like 50 Cent, who told reporters, "Anyone who has an issue with Frank Ocean is an idiot."
“[T]here are artists like Andre 3000 and Lil Wayne, who vacillate between challenging and upholding a hypermasculine identity – these performers have helped create a space for 'out' identities in the mainstream,” she said.
Ultimately, the artists in this portfolio are linked by their sexuality, but queerness is not a genre of music. It's just one facet of who they are—and just one way in which they're pushing hip-hop forward.
Details goes on to profile other queer rappers, including Mykki Blanco, Le1f, Nicky Da B, House of Ladosha, Cakes Da Killa and Big Dipper.
A video for Cakes Da Killa's Mussy Mayhem, in which he raps, “I got the kinda ass; Turn a saint into a homo,” is embedded on this page.
Channel Orange Hits 500k In Worldwide Sales
- week 1 #2 168,900 (168,900) --
- week 2 #7 94,700 (263,600) -44%
- week 3 #10 71,100 (334,700) -25%
- week 4 #12 48,000 (382,700) -32%
- week 5 #17 37,400 (420,100) -23%
- week 6 #19 29,900 (450,000) -21%
- week 7 #34 23,300 (473,300) -23%
- week 8 #36 22,000 (495,300) -6%
- week 9 #27 30,100 (525,400) +27%
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m t e op
and bow @ this le1f mention
He needs to do more promo because I want to watch interviews with him but he seems so shy and probably doesn't want to deal with a million questions about his sexuality.
Meanwhilr Ross and Chainz got bulks sent out.
Get it, Frank. That is awesome.
This resulted in me hating Russ Simmons for a while, and I had to stop eating meat for a while because I kept gagging at the memory of how chewy the Zebra skin was.