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    This week, I really enjoyed watching Cakes Da Killa's interview with Vlad TV. In my opinion, Cakes Da Killa is a really confident and cool rapper. His interview not only provides me things that I did not know before watching the interview but also mentions an interesting fact.

Cakes Da Killa

    It was great to know the phrase "born out of the closet." I have never heard of the phrase before. It was fascinating hearing Cakes Da Killa explained what he meant by saying "I was born out of the closet." Cakes Da Killa realized that he does not have the privilege of being a masculine, straight man. Instead, he is kind of very feminine. Thus, he described himself as "born out of the closet."

    Another thing that makes me respect Cakes Da Killa is because of his courage to come out early, in his third grade. The reason was because he knew he is gonna die one day. Therefore, he wanted to live as who he is and chose to come out early. Not everyone is brave enough to do what Cakes Da Killa did, to allow themselves to live as their true selves.

    One interesting fact was mentioned during the interview, which is that music is an industry with the history of homophobia. For me, this is a really interesting fact because so is the film industry. I watched the series Hollywood on Netflix and had a chance to get to know the history of the film industry. The history of homophobia of film industry was so serious that people had to hide the fact of being homosexual and had to fight for their sexual orientation.


Comments

  1. Alex DeBelloApril 4, 2021 at 8:02 AM

    Hi, Hong!! :) I also really appreciated the discussion of being "born out of the closet" and Cakes describing themself as a "gold-star gay". It stood out to me especially as I feel like I associate queerness in the United States as something that many people feel the need to repress/hide from a young age due to the fact that queer identities aren't accepted/understood/valued everywhere. It was just really awesome to see that for Cakes, and other people I'm sure, that they are so grounded in their identity from such a young age (despite societal conditioning) that they don't undergo a process of building up internal walls and then having to tear them down years later.

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  2. Xiyue ZhangApril 4, 2021 at 10:41 AM

    Yes. he is really brave to do those things. And he has a deeper understanding of this world and his life than others.

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  3. Ren NorrisApril 4, 2021 at 4:51 PM

    I really liked how you brought up the part about him coming out early. I feel like not many people talk about the expectations that a lot of queer people have to think about when it comes to the idea of coming out. It's like coming out is a prerequisite to being queer to a lot of people (even people in the LGBT+ community)

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  4. Anny DaiApril 4, 2021 at 9:39 PM

    I agree with the comments above. I really appreciated you mentioning the phrase "born out of the closet". It is quite interesting how some people have a clearer sense of their own identity growing up.

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  5. christathepotatoApril 7, 2021 at 8:41 PM

    Agreeing with all the comments above! And yesss, love the series Hollywood on Netflix! I learned a lot from that series both about the film industry/history and homophobia in America!

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