“Slut Me Out 2” rapped NLE Choppa has defended his LGBTQ+ followers. (Getty/Burak Cingi)
Rapper NLE Choppa has shared a message of help for his homosexual followers and declared that he has no time for anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.
Taking to X/Twitter over the weekend (13 April), the Tennessee-born “Shotta Circulate” rapper thanked his queer followers for displaying love for his newest single, “Slut Me Out 2”, and took intention on the hip-hop business for its therapy of LGBTQ+ folks.
“I’m noticing the LGBTQ group displaying a lot like to ‘Slut Me Out 2’ and I merely wish to say thanks,” he wrote.
“[I don’t care] what’s normalised as a rapper, I used to be raised to f**ok with who f**ok with you. So thank y’all for appreciating my craft… My music for all, we do no discrimination.”
Bigots swiftly appeared within the feedback. “NLE homosexual, too. Now s**t going [too] far,” one by some means concluded.
The rapper was fast to reply, asking: “I’m homosexual for displaying love?
“Y’all males misplaced, that’s why we killing one another day-after-day trigger y’all can’t present love and complete time y’all be those that get down like that however be hiding it. Me saying thanks bought nun to do with my sexuality, busta.”
NLE Choppa’s assertion one other step ahead for LGBTQ+ inclusion in rap
Regardless of quite a lot of hip-hop superstars popping out as LGBTQ+ lately, together with Lil Nas X, Kevin Summary, Lil Uzi Vert, Tyler The Creator and Ice Spice, queer individuals are nonetheless typically used as a punchline in some rap lyrics.
Most just lately, J Cole confronted a backlash for feedback a couple of trans man in his latest Kendrick Lamar diss observe, “Pi”.
Not content material with merely standing up for the LGBTQ+ group, NLE Choppa went one step additional by dragging those that equate dancing, having enjoyable or being effeminate, with being homosexual.
Within the “Slut Me Out 2” music video, the star seems in a glowing, lace shirt and dances a couple of mansion, whereas rapping express lyrics about what he’d love to do to himself, if he was a lady.
Talking in a video shared on X, he instructed males ought to be capable to dance with out being labelled homosexual.
“It’s humorous how within the 70s, the 60s males used to bounce, bro, and it was, like, enjoyable, it was blissful. No person checked out them like they weren’t straight, no person checked out them like they was much less of a person,” he stated.
“Now, it appears as if when males dance or present [themselves] having enjoyable, it’s much less masculine or they’re not straight. My complete factor is bringing enjoyable again to music.”