#Love and hip hop 8x11 broken silenz full

I think if I could take part in our culture, that's the part I want to take, that place. I don't know what Prince's sexual orientation is but I think that he has the biggest influence on me because he was able to transcend from being a man but also being very effeminate and having both men and women just love him and respect him. But this takes a very strong person to go face forward and make it happen and make people accept it.ĭid you have any role models when you were growing up?Ībsolutely. But I also think that at the same time…Im nervous. So, I do think, in a sense, yes, I am a role model. I never knew that I was influencing that age group or that they were even paying attention. I was just like this is the weirdest thing. I posted a picture on Instagram and it was this little eight-year-old boy, caucasian boy from Canada, who begged his mom to drive him to Detroit to meet me and he knew all the words to my songs. You know the craziest thing? I was just hosting in Detroit. I'm always being honest and being my authentic self, not really holding back and just putting my best face forward and trying to make things happen. And it's millions, you know what I mean? I do think that I have a huge representation of the community and I do think that I'm doing pretty well. I do-I think it's not that many gay guys who are African American who are out and who are comfortable? Right now, I can probably name about 5. He's doing this, he's doing that but it's ok.ĭo you think about representing gay African Americans?

I want people to look at this and be like, 'Oh, wow, it's ok.' This guy is a musician, he's on TV. I don't even think that he showed dick, but he did this nude thing for Cosmopolitan and it was a huge scandal.Īnd so I want that.

#Love and hip hop 8x11 broken silenz full

It's been years-I think something the 70s-I forget the actor, but he did a full frontal and it was really crazy. I've never seen it done in you guys' magazine before and I've really never seen it done in a way where it's like woah. So I think that this particular shoot, I think this is really important for not just the culture but for the community and pop culture in general. And I think about equality, and the stigma and the taboo, and all the things that we work so hard to break through. During pride month, I always think about all of the things that the LGBT community lacks and things that I feel like should be changed. But I also feel like all those things encompass who I am. I think about them separately because they are very separate. You overlap these different identities-you're black, you're gay, you're artistic-do you think about this question of how do you balance these different sides of yourself? Do you kind of transcend all these roles? Do you even think about them separately ? I'm not really sure which one would be like, 'Oh, this is awesome,' or which ones would be like, 'He shouldn't have did that,' you know? I think it will be a mixture of both - I think that some people will see the art in it and I think that some people will see something else but that's just human nature. I think that all communities have like kind of walls that need to be broken down so I'm not really sure.

Yeah, and you mention all the different things that you are, because you tick many boxes - which, if any of those, communities do you feel like will most embrace the shoot and which will not embrace the shoot? So you know, I could be a guy and be gay and be black and be artistic and be artistic in a nude fashion shoot in the same way that anybody else could. I think I have a nice body and I think it's art and I just think that it should be celebrated like they celebrate women's bodies. Well, I just feel like in our culture it's so taboo for a guy to show their bodies but it's ok for a woman to do it. What made you want to do or what made you agree to do like a fully nude shoot?