NYC rapper Le1f's new video for “Wut” is making a splash.
FADER profiles him in their upcoming issue:
Understandably for an artist with mainstream hopes who still embraces subversivity, Le1f is tentative about his music being framed by his gayness. âI understand that it makes people take notice,â he says. âBefore I rapped explicitly about dick, they could still tell I was gay but they called my music campy instead. Now that Iâm rapping about sleeping with dudes, Iâm always a gay rapper. I prefer that, because thereâs nothing campy about what I do. Itâs all real.â He says he wrote political songs about gay rights, but left them off of the album. âI am gay, and Iâm proud to be called a gay rapper, but itâs not gay rap. Thatâs not a genre. My goal is always to make songs that a gay dude or a straight dude can listen to and just think, This dude has swag. I get guys the way straight rappers get girls. Iâm not preachy. The best thing a song can be called is good.â
Watch “Wut” and download his new album, AFTER THE JUMP…
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