Hip-Hop: No Hiding Place

"I think a lot of people will be disappointed to learn that much of the music, style, and culture is influenced and created by gay people. By the way all you fans of hip-hop, many celebs and people who work in the entertainment industry are aware that their colleagues are involved in same sex relationships. It’s just not common or public knowledge.
"So, yes, the reality is that gay men and women are in hip-hop. We are very much ingrained in this culture, and have contributed to it in ways you’ll never imagine. You’ll even be surprised to know that hip-hop not only started in the Bronx, but there were gay people right there at the inception of the movement. And, many of those lyrics you chant and reminisce to from years ago to present day, uhm, yeah, we spit, rhyme, and wrote those, too. In the words of Beyoncé, “Who run the world? Gays.”"

Terrance Dean, author of Hiding In Hip-Hop, writing in XXL Mag, in response to an earlier article in the (confusingly titled) US Hip-Hop magazine.
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