Twenty-two-year-old rapper Angel Haze
has released a track inspired by Macklemore's hit song Same Love.
Haze, who was raised under the Greater
Apostolic Faith, considers herself pansexual, telling UK's The
Guardian last year: “Love is boundary-less. If you can
make me feel, if you can make me laugh – and that's hard – then I
can be with you. I don't care if you have a vagina or if you're a
hermaphrodite or whatever.”
Over Same Love's beat , Haze
tells her own coming out story.
“At age 13 my mother knew I wasn’t
straight;
she didn’t understand but she had so
much to say;
she sat me on the couch looked me
straight in my face;
and said you’ll burn in hell or
probably die of AIDS;
it’s funny now but at 13 it was pain;
to be almost sure of who you are and
have it ripped away;
and i’m sorry if it’s too real for
some of you to fathom;
but hate for who you love is not
exactly what you’d imagine;
and i guess it was disastrous;
cause everything that happened
afterwards was just madness;
locked away for two years to keep me on
the inside;
because she’d rather see a part of me
die than me thrive;
and it’s tougher when it’s
something you can’t deny;
and ignorance teaches us it’s
something that you decide;
you’re driven by your choice is an
optical illusion;
here’s to understanding that it’s
not always confusion.”
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