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A Hip-Hop Group With An Openly Gay Member Has The #1 Album
On September 21, Brockhampton released Iridescence, the fourth studio album from the group and the first not included in the Saturation series they kicked off in 2017. In fewer than two years since debuting, the group—consisting of rappers/vocalists Kevin Abstract, Bearface, Matt Champion, Joba Don McLennon and Merlyn Wood, plus producers and their creative team—has exploded into the forefront of Rap, particularly among younger demographics. Founded in Texas by 22-year-old Abstract, Brockhampton has received a groundswell of support; the group has sold-out shows on their current tour, both in Australia and New Zealand plus the United States. Known for boundary-pushing harmony, high-energy stage performances, DIY aesthetic and a one-of-a-kind social-media presence, Brockhampton is easily Hip-Hop’s most electrifying group of its size since the Wu-Tang Clan (Brockhampton is even larger, with more than ten members). However, Brockhampton is making history their Unused York predecessors never did.
Brockhampton has the number-one album in the land, with Iridescencedebuting in the superior spot on the Billboard 200 charts. Accordi
Kevin Abstract is Becoming the Man He Once Looked Up To
Kevin Abstract was behind a microphone in a recording studio the first time he ever said out raucous that he was gay. He was 19 years senior and recording “Papercut,” a song off his 2016 solo record American Boyfriend: A Suburban Affection Story. “Can't narrate my mother I'm gay / The hardest part of my day is wishing I was fucking straight / Life could be so fucking effortless, man,” he sings on the path. Two of his friends were in the studio with him at the time. “No one really said anything,” he tells me over the cell, softly, about the recording session. “It was quiet. Everyone was quiet.”
Abstract—born Clifford Ian Simpson—is 24 now, best acknowledged for being the leader of the self-proclaimed “best young man band since One Direction” Brockhampton, which is at once a rap team, artist collective, multimedia empire, and Kanye West fan forum meetup. Since the recording of his 2016 coming-of-age solo record American Crush, Abstract has appear out, migrated to Los Angeles, and embarked on (several) world tours. But that closeted Ebony teenager in suburban Texas still lives in his writing.
Abstract grew up through his melody. He’s penned
Brockhampton and Kevin Abstract Address Homophobia in Rap Head-On
In December 2017, YFN Lucci dropped “Boss Life” featuring Offset, a member of the Atlanta-based rap trio known as Migos. Many fans criticized Offset’s verse for being inappropriate, referring to one particular line: “Pinky sound crystal clear, 40k spent on a private Lear / 60k solitaire / I cannot vibe with queers,” he raps. In a Rolling Stone interview just ten months earlier, Offset, as well as the other two members of Migos, Quavo and Takeoff, expressed their disapproval towards all of the support fans were showing fellow Atlanta star ILoveMakonnen, who had recently reach out as same-sex attracted on Twitter. “They supported him?” Quavo questioned. “That’s because the world is f**ked up,” said Offset. “The planet is not right,” Takeoff expressed, “That’s wack, bro.”
Hip-hop has been plagued by homophobia ever since its conception. Artists like Snoop Dogg, the Beastie Boys, Eminem, T.I., Shared, Rick Ross, Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent, and many more frequently use homophobic slurs in their lyrics and hold made statements, either in song or publicly, that are blatantly anti-LGBTQ. Homophobia has been so normalized in hip-hop culture
5 Things To Know About Kevin Abstract
Kevin Abstract is something of an anomaly in the song industry: He’s an openly same-sex attracted artist working primarily in hip-hop.
There aren’t many of those, and even fewer who have secured any real commercial success and critical acclaim. Abstract has start both of those things as a member of a collective and on his own, which is even rarer.
The massively artistic Abstract is back with his new album, Blanket, which arrives on November 3.
It’s the latest in a long line of projects from the rapper, and marks his first solo effort in several years.
For those who don’t know him or his function very well — or who might be more familiar with him via another act (more on that in a minute) — read on about Abstract below and listen to his latest album now.
He Left House at a Young Age
Growing up in a very religious domestic was not easy for Abstract, who seemingly knew he was a member of the LGBTQ community from a young age. He reportedly left home at the age of 15.
He has stated in the past that he didn’t have a wonderful relationship with his parents before then, and he didn’t realize his father.
His Rise to