The hip hop world doesn't exactly have a track record of being a friendly place for gays, lesbians, bisexuals or transgenders, so for a rapper to admit that they're something besides heterosexual takes an enormous amount of courage.
Azealia Banks is arguably the first rapper with a mainstream audience to actually come out of the closet. The 20-year-old emcee, labeled as "the next big thing" in the industry, came out as a bisexual in a new interview with the New York Times. Banks did it with very little fanfare -- just a couple of lines that appear near the end of the interview.
"Ms. Banks considers herself bisexual, but, she said: "I'm not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don't live on other people's terms."
Though Banks has yet to release her debut album, (due later this year) she's already secured the adoration of some very influential people in music and fashion -- she's one of the five people Kanye West follows on Twitter.
Do you think Banks' revelation will inspire other hip-hop stars to come out?
Source: huffingtonpost.com
