Chris Conde is ‘consuming up’ the hate being directed his means. (YouTube/TikTok/@ChrisConde666)
Queer Brooklyn-based rapper Chris Conde has addressed going viral on X/Twitter after right-wing trolls focused him following a Delight efficiency.
Earlier this week (30 June), a video of the “C.O.M.B” performer – that’s quick for “C*m In My Beard”, by the way in which – was unfold throughout the web by bigots outraged at his efficiency.
Conde usually performs nearly fully nude, save for a leather-based harness, and has a big tattoo of the phrase “queer” throughout his abdomen. Watching him do his factor at a Delight occasion in Unhealthy Ischl, Austria, the place he carried out an unreleased tune referred to as “Good Boys Say Sure Sir”, was sufficient to make the haters weep.
The trolling began to ramp up when Trump fan and on-line influencer Vince Langman shared a clip of Conde’s efficiency along with his 170,000 followers on X/Twitter captioned: “WTF is that this?”
But the nasty marketing campaign in opposition to the rapper reached fever pitch after yet one more Trump lover and Republican campaigner Juanita Broaddrick posted the clip to her social media viewers of 1 million followers.
After all, the quick clip was then reposted by a big stream of depressing right-wingers, a lot of whom tried to mock the “Infamous F.A.G” performer.
But whereas queer performers like Conde are sadly getting more and more used to on-line, bigoted abuse, there are literally some positives: among the many trolls have been some music lovers who had by no means heard of Conde and his work. After seeing the viral video, they have been on the spot followers.
That listing included RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Yvie Oddly, “212” rapper Azealia Banks, and Travis Kelce’s retired soccer participant brother, Jason Kelce.
Oddly wrote on X/Twitter that she needed Conde as her “subsequent musical collab hopefully” – and Conde has since confirmed that the 2 are in talks to make a tune collectively.
Banks, who posted about Conde on her Instagram Story, has additionally reached out to him through direct message. Kelce responded to fellow soccer retiree Antonio Brown after Brown “joked” that it was Kelce performing within the video, writing: “S**t, I want I might spit bars like that.”
Chatting with Rolling Stone, Chris Conde addressed changing into a viral sensation and every little thing that got here with it – the nice, the unhealthy, the ugly, and useful to his future music profession.
Conde didn’t appear too bothered by the “predictable” conservative hate, explaining: “It was extra similar to that very same rhetoric of like, the ‘liberals need to dismantle American values’, that s**t.
“They’re simply indignant, however they don’t know why, proper? Which is hilarious.
“I’m consuming up that these individuals are so bothered by my existence. I’ve been subverting heteronormative ideologies since I got here out, particularly with my music.”
Plus, whereas the boring trolls will finally ease off and discover one thing else to be upset about, the newfound followers will seemingly stick round.
“With the ability to have a platform now and to have so many individuals see what I can do is completely insane,” Conde mentioned.
Chris Conde’s music is accessible on all good and homosexual streaming platforms.