{"id":113701,"date":"2021-08-06T03:33:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T03:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/megan-thee-stallion-addresses-homophobia-in-hip-hop\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T03:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T03:33:12","slug":"megan-thee-stallion-addresses-homophobia-in-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/megan-thee-stallion-addresses-homophobia-in-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Thee Stallion Addresses Homophobia in Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Although hip-hop has become increasingly tolerant over the years, the culture is still\u00a0struggling with misogyny and homophobia. This was highlighted in recent weeks, following the backlash against Lil Nas X\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/lil-nas-x-addresses-homophobic-comments-industry-baby-video-yall-hate-gay-people\/\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cIndustry Baby\u201d visual<\/a> as well as\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Droid Serif&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\" href=\"http:\/\/complex.com\/tag\/dababy\" rel=\"noopener\">DaBaby<\/a>\u2019s misinformed, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/dababy-homophobic-rolling-loud-comments\" rel=\"noopener\">hateful\u00a0remarks at Rolling Loud Miami<\/a>, both of which reignited conversations about rap\u2019s longstanding bigotry problem.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/complex.com\/tag\/megan-thee-stallion\" rel=\"noopener\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>\u00a0weighed in on the issue during a recent interview with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/megan-thee-stallion-says-about-time-that-rap-tackle-lgbtq-hate\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>People<\/em><\/a>\u00a0magazine,\u00a0saying\u00a0the genre\u2019s reckoning with homophobia was long overdue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is about time,\u201d she said. \u201cRepresentation is important, and it is really crucial for us all to have compassion and acceptance of every human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Megan faced allegations of homophobia back in 2019, after Twitter users dug up an old tweet in which she used a gay slur against someone who had upset her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis lil f****t just pissed me off,\u201d she wrote during her late teens.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old rapper addressed the controversy in 2018 and 2019, saying she apologized for her language and insisted the post did not represent her current views.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/>\n<p>You can read Megan\u2019s full People interview <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/megan-thee-stallion-says-about-time-that-rap-tackle-lgbtq-hate\/\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, where she speaks about her Rolling Loud Miami performance, how school has kept her grounded, and her recent collaboration with Cash App.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/megan-thee-stallion-speaks-on-homophobia-in-hip-hop\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although hip-hop has become increasingly tolerant over the years, the culture is still\u00a0struggling with misogyny and homophobia. This was highlighted in recent weeks, following the backlash against Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cIndustry Baby\u201d visual as well as\u00a0DaBaby\u2019s misinformed, hateful\u00a0remarks at Rolling Loud Miami, both of which reignited conversations about rap\u2019s longstanding bigotry problem.\u00a0\u00a0 Megan Thee Stallion\u00a0weighed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3813,95,96,5,1509,407,1561,2896,2972,7,8,690,838,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dababy","category-dfp-music","category-dfp-music-hiphop","category-featured","category-gay","category-hip-hop","category-homophobia","category-lgbtq","category-megan-thee-stallion","category-music","category-news","category-rap","category-rappers","category-tier-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113703,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113701\/revisions\/113703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}