The gay rapper on love and hip hop

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More than 3.6 million viewers tuned in to VH1’s season two premiere of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood earlier this month. A reality show focused on the Hollywood hip-hop music scene, the series has in the past followed former victorious R&B artists, video vixens, actors, and girlfriends of dwindling rappers through the glitz, glamour, and delusion of their wild world. This new season of Love and Hip Hop delivers more of the identical, featuring returning stars like R&B songstress Teairra Mari, rapper Soulja Boy, former B2K heartthrobs Fizz and Omarion, and fan favorites Moniece and Hazel-E. But like any ensemble reality show, Love & Hip Hop has its reasonable share of several newbies vying for a spot in the opening credits each season, including, this time, rapper Miles (Siir Brock) and producer Milan—two folks who occur to be in a relationship and also happen to be men.  

This is no petty thing for the largely straight exhibition. Before Miles and Milan, the Recent York version of the franchise featured a lesbian couple, Erica Mena and her then-girlfriend Cyn Santana, but this is the first time a lgbtq+ male couple has been

Milan Christopher made history when he united “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood” for its second season, which premiered in September. The rapper and producer from Chicago is the first openly homosexual man in the “Love & Hip Hop” franchise.

The Hollywood iteration features eight main cast members, including Ray J, Brandy’s little brother and sex-tape companion with Kim Kardashian; Omarion from the early-aughts boy-band B2K; and Soulja Lad. It airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on VH1.

Christopher’s partnership with fellow season-two castmate Miles “Siir Brock” Brock position a gay couple front and center in the hip-hop world. Although the show stressed the relationship, and the couple has since separated, Christopher credits “Love & Hip Hop” with opening doors in his music career. His debut EP, tentatively titled “Final Fantasy,” will drop in January.

Christopher visited PGN’s office this month to talk existence TV, music and being labeled “the gay rapper.”

PGN: Was filming a truths show the exposure you expected?

MC: When I was shooting it, it was cool. But right now, based on how things include turned in my relationship, it’s not what I mind it was going to be. I thought I was going to be m

Black reality TV has a bad rap. Known for being messy, with tons of fighting, drink and wig-throwing, its characters certainly made their way into mainstream culture by way of GIFs, memes and spin-off shows.

VH1’s Love & Hip Hop series, produced by Mona Scott-Young, is known for all of the above (and it’s where Cardi B rose to fame). The present, which started in 2011, is about new, emerging and established rappers, singers and songwriters trying to find love, build connections and make it as artists in their metropolis (there are three to 10 seasons for Miami, Atlanta, Hollywood and Recent York). But their journeys aren’t without a whole lot of drama: Association drama, music industry drama, friendship drama and baby-mama-and-daddy drama.

There’s much to speak about how these representations of Black culture contribute to the legacy of stereotypes against Black people; after all, digital blackface—the use of reaction GIFs and memes by non-Black people of Black people’s overexaggerated expressions—is rife in our daily communications. But I don’t think Love & Hip Hop has been given enough credit in the ways it resists these stere

Brock said coming out to Hunter was so difficult for him, he had no plans to monitor the episode.

But viewers most definitely tuned in to see a male rapper come out on one of Black Twitter’s most favorite franchises.

“I really didn’t think how monumental having an openly gay person, and a person who is coming out, on reality TV was,” Christopher said in a cell interview with BuzzFeed News. “But … there’s never been a couple favor us. As time progressed, I started to see, Oh, this is going to be huge. This is going to be huge for the group, this is going to be huge for hip-hop, this is going to be huge for truths TV.”

It also would be huge for their affair , as Christopher anticipated answers to the questions that had long been plaguing him: Was his boyfriend’s reluctance to come out because he was deeply interested with someone else? What might he find out once the cameras started rolling and almost nothing could be disputed?

“I had been dating him for so long, and I got to thinking, The reason that you’re not coming out and we’re not doing this thing, is not because of what society thinks — because you see that I’m successful and you reap all the benefits of my success —