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Fly Young Red Is Rumored To Have Signed Record Deal With YMCMB

It’s bound to happen sooner or later…

Via ChicagoPride

Lil Wayne has signed openly gay rapper Fly Young Red to his record label Cash Money.

Fly Young Red’s video for the single Throw That Boy P***y, which has been viewed more than 600,000 times since its March 18 YouTube debut, has put the young rapper in the spotlight.

“Good music is good music,” Lil Wayne is quoted as saying by 24HourHipHop.com.”Gay, straight, black, white, blue or purple. Good music is just good music. Have you ever been in the club when that joint came on? Niggas go crazy when that drop. I had to make him YMCMB [Young Money Cash Money Billionaires].”

Appearing on cabler Fusion’s AM Tonight, Fly Young Red said he wanted to create music that speaks directly to gay men.

“I decided to create the video because I would go to gay clubs and I would see a lot of gay guys dancing to hip-hop music that rappers were talking to females,” Fly Young Red said. “And I felt like, you know, I’m a gay rapper, I’m coming out with an album, I need a club song and I need something that everybody can dance to. And I wanted to direct the song directly to the gay guys who were dancing.”

“Gay people who listen to hip hop, they shouldn’t have to change the word from girl to guy. They should have their own music, and I want to provide that outlet for them,” he added.

While reports of the signing is currently melting Twitter feeds and rumor mills across the ‘net, YMCMB boss Mack Maine is denying that it contains even a shred of truth.

Flip the page to read his rumor control.

Via XXLMag

With rumors surfacing that Lil Wayne has added an openly gay member to the Cash Money family, Mack Maine unveils that the hearsay is completely untrue. Word has been going around the internet that Weezy inked a deal with a rapper named Fly Young Red, who in the last few much had gained much notoriety on the queer rap scene.

Since debuting his music video for the song “Throw That Boy P***y,” the young artist has garnered over 600,000 views on YouTube.

Yes, I do consider myself as a queer artist,” Young Fly Red said in an interview with the Huffington Post. “My identity impacts my music a lot. When I was 16 I started to gain notoriety for my rap and I started rapping with a rap group and they wanted to sign me. At this point in my life I also started to realize I was gay. So, I’m rapping about females and hanging out with my straight group with a reputation that they worked had for. I didn’t feel comfortable. I was living a lie.”

When asked if there was any truth to whispers that YMCMB added Fly to their roster, Mack Maine responded, “No not at all.”

Which side of the story to you believe? We wouldn’t be shocked in the slightest if Red was on stage rockin’ leather jeggings next to Wayne and rest of the YMCMB weirdos.

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