Angel Haze Releases Cover Of Macklemore's 'Same Love'
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | October 23, 2013
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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