{"id":495744,"date":"2020-06-03T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1009415"},"modified":"2020-06-03T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T14:38:05","slug":"da-brat-discusses-why-she-came-out-after-more-than-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/da-brat-discusses-why-she-came-out-after-more-than-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Brat Discusses Why She Came Out After More Than 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago rap legend Da Brat<\/a> discussed her decision to come out in a new profile out in Variety<\/em><\/a> for the magazine\u2019s Pride Issue.<\/p>\n

The Dish Nation<\/em> host revealed her sexual orientation this past March in an emotional Instagram post<\/a>, where she confirmed her relationship with Kaleidoscope Hair Products CEO Jesseca Dupart by celebrating an early birthday gift: a white Bentley tied in a red bow.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve always felt like being private is the better way to go, because then you don\u2019t have so many people in your business,\u201d Brat told Variety<\/em>. \u201cI was fine staying quiet, but my partner is a social media mogul \u2014 that\u2019s how she became who she is. And when you get with somebody, you have to meet in the middle. So to me, the middle was just letting everybody know: \u2018Hey, she\u2019s the one.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Da Brat denied putting an exact label on her orientation, but stated that she had dated both men and women, \u201cso I guess for a long time I was bisexual.\u201d She went onto say that the announcement wasn\u2019t planned, and that she didn\u2019t even give her long-time manager the heads up that she was making a coming-out post. \u201cJesseca was showing me some pictures and we were going back and forth, joking \u2018I\u2019ll post it,\u2019 \u2018No, I\u2019ll post it.\u2019 So when she did, I was like, \u2018Oh sh\u2013! I just came out after 20-something years!\u2019 But it feels good to share with the world when you\u2019re happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brat also clarified that it was entirely her decision, not her label\u2019s, to stay in the closet, citing her religious upbringing and outside pressures from the industry. \u201cI was always told you want to be fuckable to men and women to sell records \u2014 you don\u2019t want anybody to discriminate. It was absolutely my decision. I mean, you saw what happened to people like Ellen: Remember when she lost her TV show, and all these horrible things were happening? People were totally against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with her stint on Fox\u2019s Dish Nation<\/em>, Da Brat currently hosts the nationally syndicated Atlanta radio show The Rickey Smiley Morning Show<\/em>, and was cast in the lesbian character Cleo in the stage production of Set It Off<\/em>, adapted from the 1996 female heist movie starring Queen Latifah, Vivica Fox and Jada Pinkett Smith. The production is scheduled to tour the country starting in the fall, with an opening show on September 25th in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love being a badass, and I love being a part of an ensemble of women,\u201d Brat said of her role.<\/p>\n

When asked about younger LGBTQ artists in the music industry like Lil Nas X, she praised their visibility but warned against the executives running the show; she expressed concern that women rappers are being forced into a box in terms of their gender presentation. \u201cYou can\u2019t go in there looking [tough] like I did [back in the day] and be like: \u2018I\u2019m a rapper.\u2019 They\u2019re going to say, \u2018Let\u2019s get you out of those tomboy clothes and dress you up in a teddy.\u2019 But that changes who you are \u2014 and then your rhymes start changing because you look different. Then you\u2019re not so relatable because you\u2019re not being yourself anymore. Now you\u2019re somebody else. Who are you?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chicago rap legend Da Brat discussed her decision to come out in a new profile out in Variety for the magazine\u2019s Pride Issue. The Dish Nation host revealed her sexual orientation this past March in an emotional Instagram post, where she confirmed her relationship with Kaleidoscope Hair Products CEO Jesseca Dupart by celebrating an early birthday gift: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-495744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 04:14:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}