KEVIN ABSTRACT...is bout to blow up bruh!

You lost me at "bruh."

R1 Cool. Separating the the sheep from the GOATS bruv ;)

I'm in two minds. I don't want "the gays " to get their rainbow glitter vomit over him and kill his cool. But cool ass gay/bi's deserve his goatness.

Welp looked here! That there Kevin Abcess done found hisself the DEE-EL!!

To get you up to speed here's the biography deets

He's on dat white meat diet

Do you think he's had sex with Teo Halm?

Ok. Odd video. Love it.

It's a fucking brilliant video. If that's what he can do that at twenty damn we in for quite the artistic journey!

I love this track from a rock side project or something. He's first and foremost a rapper -- a fucking good one -- and has only been singing for a few years but his beautifully imperfect vocal tone has so much character and raw emotion and it sounds so authentically indie rock here and not some hipsterish eclectic affectation

This was from when he was 17 or 18 and it's raw but you can see personality and aesthetic sensibility really cuts through. He's progressed and evolved so much since then and the new album will be almost unrecognisable and amazing

I wanna lick his helmet

Ha ha, that Empty video is great.

I wonder if the new album will be a concept album based around that storyline in the vid? I mean it's called American Boyfriend

Good article where he addresses his sexuality. Damn his first shows were only a few months ago!

The Frank Ocean influence is clear but he additionally brings a quirkier punk attitude. He's like a more fluorescent frenetic Frank ocean. But that belies an equally introverted geeky personality.

I particularly love the second song here American Boyfriend.

Bit worried about where he's going with the helmet boy gimmick ..that could get tired very quickly.

PSA: Tell your friends AND your enemies about this guy. Spread the message to help get this kids YT views up and listen to his Empty song on the streaming services...help smooth the path for LGBT guys like him and to come thru and help others come after him Let's change the fucking culture. Thank you.

We need to look after our own first not some fucking pandering pop diva

*not these pandering pop divas like Gaga and Ariana etc

His bars* are fire!

*That's hipity hopity rap verses to you, daddy-o

[quote]You lost me at "bruh."

Yeah....OP doesn't care but thanks for heads up, gramps.

That there Kevin Abcess is ALL over this here thread!

R22 Gurrrl go back to your Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson threads

Bump

Great:

This is his real life BF

R25 Weirdly it has a similar sound and vibe to Frank Ocean's Seigfried combined with uncannily similar vocal refrain from Nights both off of Blonde ..only this was out well before Blonde and NOBODY but Frank and his producer knew what the completed record sounded like, least of all his musicians who didn't know what parts he'd use if any till it dropped.

Bump to bump this new generation of gay/bi masculine talent

More bump.

Re Empty video :

So is that the GF of the black guy...and she's waiting for him in the car....and she makes him end it with white boy ..and white boy offs himself; or is white boy her boyfriend? But then why show her waiting in car? Or is one of them her BF but his male lover is cheating on him with her too seeing her too?

....

Possibly the next single.

Kevin's band Brockhampton. Damn.

Smoooooth

Here's the house Brockhampton share. Kevin seems like a bossy bottom. Cute blonde boy with the nose ring.

There so young...practically zygotes

*They're

....

bump

American Boyfriend coming in November.

Don't we get a "next big thing" announcement here at least once a week?

This appears to be his new boyfriend:

Block R2 and 9/10ths of this thread disappears.

I hope bruh doesn't die in the process. Nah, I hope he does.

Block R43 and an irritating and useless scold disappears. Worthless cunt.

Good luck to him, but .........nope.

He initally said he was bisexual, but seeing how half his tweets are about boys he finds cute and he called himself "king of gays" recently, I guess it's by now safe to say he's gay.

I really love how unabashed he is about it, without being the least bit flamboyant or stereotypical (not that there's anything wrong with that). He recently tweeted that he'd let Shawn Mendes top him, lol.

R47 LOL did you predict his line in this song?

Bout to blow up as predicted 😎😉

Typical YT comment : "Kiann Rodrick1 hour ago (edited) Kevin Abstract wrote a verse with a line about giving a nigga a bj and it still sound lit."

Fuck the whack ass Troyes and Glamberts with their lame "queer" tumblr pandering shit -- *this* is how culture actually changes

That "Shawn Mendes only" rule mustn't have worked out...seems to have jumped back on the white boy horse again

Brockhampton Saturation 2 season nearly upon us! This looks promising. Kevin can really spit ..not just swallow

From this:

To this:

He's a cool bruh

I need Ameer to punish me 🤤

Dom is THICC

This track is kinda a miss for me -- too on the money both lyrically and with the video (also some annoying discontinuities). Nevertheless the guy's got an eye and is a major talent. Hated most of his recent solo work (after being teased with the brilliance of Empty) because it read like a blue-haired teenager's tumblr page ..but I guess that was his point. Brockhampton is the real shit tho

How much mainstream potential does he have?

on the NOSE* (not money)

R57 Brockhampton is starting to pop nowwith sold out shows and a Viceland show also that all important Fantano consign with memes and shit ..solo, I'm less sure about. But he moves in the same circles as Tyler and Franknow and is talked in the same terms as those guys (whether or not his merit actually justifies it)

Kevin with Tyler watching Frank

I read a mostly positive comment about Gummy on a hiphop but nonetheless decrying the TWO gay members -- mentioning Merlyn. I can't find any proof of this. Anyone know? Probably just cause the homophobe saw him wearing a dress in the Gold video

^on a hip hop blog

r61

I seem to remember Merlyn saying something (on one of Kevin's IG lives, I think) that made me conclude he was straight, but I don't recall the details.

I'd love him to be gay (or bi) though - he's beautiful. I think him and Matt Champion are by far the most fuckable members of Brockhampton. Though I would do Kevin too, but that's more because he projects an appealing warmth.

Yeah I remember Merlyn was flirting like crazy on twitter with some girls who where namechecked in the lyrics of one recent songs...he seems to have his own groupies. I thought him quite ugly till the Lamb video wherein he absolutely glows and looks beautiful especially in profile. Kevin comes off as sexless. Ameer and Dom could get it. After watching their Viceland show I'm crushing on Romil and his eyebrows but it's more wanting to protect him from Kevin and his passive aggressive shit

Not my favourite of theirs but I'll grudgingly concede it's quite touching in the present climate

I hope there's another season of their show. I've never seen a modern band with such chemistry and fully formed authentic and individual characters

^the first season on google drive

LOL kevin being reckless

^icase he deletes it:

Is Pittbull a bottom

Off Shawn Medes and back on Harry again

Kevin you idiot why do this? Them sneks vicious:

harry is hot and taylor sucks and saturation II is out now

^*why risk losing sales

dumbass boyfriend dumbass boyfriend @kevinabstract · 7h louis bad i'd give him thesuc

* the succ

dumbass boyfriend @kevinabstract

enough of me being serious where the fuck is harry at i need him in me immediately 9:55 pm · 25 Aug 2017

New Brockhampton is fucking amazing like AOTY level. Go buy or stream and get it to #1 (currently #5) Either way, they've arrived bitch! 😤👏🙌🏆

Is Bearface gay too? The final song, Summer seems to be a love song to a boy -- using that pronoun. But maybe singing it in character? I mean Brockhamoton is Kevin's project and a snippet of the song was used in Kevin's dick succ extraordinaire Empty video

Godamn! "Tokyo" is amazing. Surely a contender for song of the year

Runnnnnnn

^Oops wrong homo rapper

Saturation 2 🔥🔥🔥

No love here for the Brockhampton boys and the currently most successful OUT gay rapper in the world? 🙁

r82, he's bisexual, not gay.

R83 I'm not one of DLs bisexuality-denialists but I rather doubt it in this case or at least that decidedly is not the narrative Kevin wants to send out..hence maybe why he deleted the fan favorite early banger "Bet I" which just happens to be recount his pussy exploits ..hmmm 🤔

r84, I get what you are saying and I have no dog in this fight. But what I'm saying is that HE says that he's bisexual, that's really all that matters.

In his music he constantly (and I mean constantly 🙄!) calls himself GAY

Doable?????

This this nerdy aspy-level comical but also highlights why he's so important for the culture:

Stats All of this adds up to a total of 27 being gay references and 3 giving/receiving head references, meaning that so far in all his recorded output (after he came out) Kevin has made 30 references to himself either being gay or giving/receiving head. He has been featured on 31 songs since coming out on All-American Boyfriend, meaning that an average song featuring Kevin Abstract contains ~0.96 being gay references (including GH) and ~0.09 references to giving head to a man or receiving head from a man.

Here is a graph visualizing Kevin's being gay references over time. 2 songs in particular (STAR and JUNKY) make up 1/3 of Kevin's total references to being gay. (A big thank you to /u/Carpetfreak for making this!) In conclusion, Kevin's being gay references are definitely common. He references being gay at least once in most of his songs. However, there are only a couple of songs where his experience as a gay man is the overwhelming theme. He definitely makes an effort to discuss his sexuality, but it's not as overt as some people think.

Additionally, his references to giving or receiving head are not nearly as common as people seem to think. Despite "I just gave my nigga head" making it onto the Brockhampton starterpack that sits at the number 6 spot all time for this sub, he only references giving OR receiving head 3 times in 31 songs. I think that's indicative of how rare explicit lyrics about gay sexuality are in the current hip hop climate. Every rapper under the sun is fucking big booty bitches in their maybach, but no one's sucking dick in one. Now that one particularly talented artist has mentioned it, it's become one of the primary pieces of subject matter he's known for. Most people on this sub see Kevin for the multi-talented, multi-faceted individual he is, but as BROCKHAMPTON inevitably gains mainstream exposure, ignorant people will undoubtedly pigeonhole Kevin as "the guy who raps about giving head" or something similar.

^Some comments:

[–]hockeygrrrl 10 points 8 hours ago i honestly think people just aren't used to artists (esp in the hiphop/rap scene) being so open with the use of same-sex pronouns or even talking about sexuality in a way that's so deep or confrontational/confessional. we're so used to only hearing about "fuckin bitches/hoes" in mainstream rap that when he raps about it people only focus on that because it's "shocking." i'm glad he raps as much as he does about it. it's his story & his struggles that are more common than we think, we should be listening. permalinkembedsavereportgive goldreply

[–]AwwwwGeezRick[S] 3 points 8 hours ago I agree. Big artists who are queer typically rap/sing about it in a light, metaphorical sense. Kevin is the first artist to come onto my radar who raps about gay sexuality it in such an explicit manner, and I think it's important that becomes normalized because there's still a lot of homophobia in hip-hop culture. If more artists rap about it, listeners will focus on it less and instead focus on what's important: the artist's story and struggles. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply

[–]rynthetyn 1 point 3 hours ago I think what's revolutionary about what he's doing is that he's not actually doing anything revolutionary, he's just following the same framework that has been in hip hop for pretty much forever, the only thing that's different is the gender of who he's rapping about. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply

Serious question: Is all of Odd Future out? Semi-out(like DL fave Tyler the Creator?)

Kevin is not Odd Future just strongly influenced by them and shares same management, if that's what you mean. But to your point it's only Tyler, Frank, Syd (and Steve Lacy who's affiliated with Syd through ThebInternet and Tyler and now probably also Kevin) so far...

*The Internet

check them out if you haven't , surprisingly sophisticated, jazz funk influenced shit

[–]bye-ya 11 points 7 hours ago man as a bi guy it just makes me smile to see a male rapper on stage rap about sucking dick with a crowd cheering him on. it's great. permalinkembedsavereportgive goldreply

So did he blow up? This post is almost a year old and I'm just now hearing about him.

He had a longer fuse than first though R94.

R94 Let King Melon of all da memes tell ya

And Saturation ll even better boi

Word of mouth success is the best success. These boys have been BUSY grafting hard writing, producing, recording, mixing, engineering, mastering, creating their own record label and publishing company, directing their own videos, designing their own art and merch, and staring in their own Viceland show. And all without consigns from other rappers until very recently by Tyler. This is the crossing point. Quote me.

[quote]Quote me.

Okay, but only this part.

Brilliant write-up why on why they're so important culturally in 2017 and a genuine game changers vis-a-vis normalising homosexuality in hip hop and it's fans (which is basically all young people, now that rap is the new pop)!

Lol What's wrong with you people.. I'm tryna put you onto something culturally significant and a generational turning point (or a tangible crystallisation of said phenomenon 🤓) And y'all paying me dust 😔

Brockhampton Romil

hot or nah? The unfeasibly Bert (& Ernie) brows make me feel a certain way

Any minute he's gong to blow...stand back or step up!

👀🤦‍♂️

[–]Redhillies67[S] 13 points 3 hours ago* story time : i was waiting in line and i needed to piss, so i went to the alley behind the venue and i started to piss on this trash can. as i'm zipping up all of the sudden i hear screaming, and then i look behind me and kevin is right behind me recording me, i said what's up and asked for a picture. permalinkembedsavereportgive goldreply

[–]ItsTheGuyOnTheCouch 5 points 2 hours ago You seem pretty chill about it, it seems everyone is creaming themselves in the comments tho permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply

[–]Redhillies67[S] 4 points 2 hours ago i'm chill about it now but not gonna lie i was freaking out after it happened lmaooo permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive goldreply

I'm sure it was innocent but he has to be more careful about shit like this and the shit he says on twitter. People are looking for any opportunity. There's was a horrible tranny adjacent SJW accusing Kevin of being "problematic" and worse:. essentially grooming Shawn Mendez (iirc) just by being flirty over twitter 🙄 or something

Looks like "bruh" is going to become the next "tea."

Dis funny as hell. The chemistry in this group is unrivalled this is some Monkees or Beatles shit but if they actually liked each over. Spot the subtle gay undertones.

lol r105 I think I know who you mean...she's gross and hates on everyone deemed remotely problematic...yet she stanned for Tyler for the longest time (until his white boy fetish got too much) Kevin is harmless though, I don't get the hate.

Actually looks sorta hot here

[quote] There's was a horrible tranny adjacent SJW accusing Kevin of being "problematic" and worse:. essentially grooming Shawn Mendez (iirc) just by being flirty over twitter 🙄 or something

Lol, wtf - aren't they basically the same age?

Excellent article on why they insist on being called a “boyband” (which I never really got before and dismissed as a gimmick) and their “mission statement” generally.

Getting ready for their biggest gig today at Tyler’s Camp Flog Gnaw carnival 🚀

Awww ❣️ How can you not 😍

Thicc

Wholesome

“Blowing up” confirmed

Does anyone think he's dating Nick? I mean they've been seen kissing, holding hands, and hugging in several livestreams

Ian (Kevin) getting a lil bit too full of himself

R117 I doubt it. I hope not. I’ve heard nothing but bad things about that guy and his entitled snotty attitude...condiering what he brings to the group with his shitty overpriced “designs”

...Plus Kevin has even been filmed kissing Ameer — so it means nothing

R117 This might be from their “Movie 🙄”

I doubt they’re actually a thing

...I hope not. Nasty Nick is a complete dick. How do you constantly invite speculation about your and then get all pissy like this:

[quote] KEVIN ABSTRACT...is bout to blow up bruh!

Your hep slang makes me all the more inclined to want to buy his wares, PR shill!

Invite speculation about your sexuality *

R123 doesn’t get irony and pastiche. Unclench bitch

Kings of meme

Supreme Being of meme

If he wasn’t so extra he’d be lowkey attractive

[OP] Kill yo self Bruv

[OP] talking to himself bout some shit ass music. Ban please. Homophobic "dont want the gays to glitter him up". Please go back to the sub sub Reddit you came from with your half queer barely hip hop bull shit. Also, Kid Cudi .

Nah blud

Ameer’s juicy bare thighs might perhaps ameliorate your inarticulate animus

Jaden Smith album drops tonight and he put out this cryptic message to Brockhampton telling them to listen

Side note: imagine if Jaden came our on this album or at least had some ambiguously queer/bi themes

Snowblind Kevin playing in dat fresh snow. Hey it’s festive. ⛄️

He deleted the tweet admitting they're dating.

Looks like a Walmart brand Shawn Mendes crossed with Matt Champion. Not necessarily a bad thing.

💔 Dom broke down in tears in the concert last night and was comforted by Joba. I love these guys so much. They are the cure to toxic masculinity in hip hop

Video in the above link —

Unfortunately, talentless professional celeb spawn Jaden Smith turned up and danced on stage

His friend got shot on the day of Saturation III release last week, plus he tweeted about his love life going wrong, added to which his mom just had a health scare, and he suffered from depression and started his own forum for sufferers

This is fire. It’s from the demos and I unbelievably they left it off the album

First single off the new album

Followed up a day or two later by this

I got through about 90 seconds of that video OP linked, and I have to say, that motherfucker is fucking awful!

Why do I not trust your critical faculties. R142? Maybe something to do with someone having the free time to click on a random video and yet can’t give it the full 3 1/2 mins and yet somehow feels qualified to proffer an opinion. Troll.

Is this thread from the same OP of the Frank Ocean one?

r144 It's some little rep management intern trying to earn his daily bread by hyping no talent singers.

Ignore his threads except to ridicule.

R145 is an who knows NOTHING about being a music fan or indeed having an enthusiasm about anything anymore and is just waiting around his piss-sodden lonely midden heap of a home to die (painfully, we hope )

An idiot *

The chemistry among these guys is a big part of the appeal. Here’s the documentary about the making of the latest album. They're totally a family.

Kevin’s latest short film. And there’s another full length one that’s he’s shot and is now editing

Xmas day livestream at their home/music-factory opening presents ❤️

I guess he never blew up bruh. And you promised me he would OP. You said to trust you and I did. But he never blew up. Now I’m sad.

My dawg

LOL r151 you absolute clownfor not fact checking before that

#4 Rap Album #15 Billboard Top 200.

ALL SELF-PRODUCED, MIXED, MASTERED...AND WITHOUT ANY LABELOTHERNTHAN THE ONE THEY CREATED..LIKE THEIR FILM COMPANY AND CLOTHING

all without any label other than the one they themselves created*

Link?

Link to what? The sales figures. Don’t embarrass yourself by doubting something so easy to check

BROCKHAMPTON #2 album of the year by the MOST POPULAR AND INFLUENTIAL MUSIC CRITIC (by sheer numbers)

#4 rap and #15 overall (as of the end of first week sales)

Blown-up confirmed 🙌

Don't let word get out to Willy Cartier about ABSTRACT. He never rebounded from his relationship with Frank Ocean. He would definitely be sweatin' thulis dude.

The only thing I DO regret is the “bisexual” descriptor ...LOL noooo

Why can’t people be happy that an openly gay man is finally making it in hip hop (and other creative endeavours) aand — as the leader of a mostly straight collective— and getting critical respect as well as street cred ?

Bless your fucking heart that you think DL cares about "street cred" or leading a "straight collective".

I hope Kevin dons some glitter for a ball, like Ocean did recently, so your head can explode at the sight of your bruh hero betraying his street cred.

Kevin talks about sucking dick and bottoming, he doesn't need glitter to be unabashedly gay.

Who said he needs it? It will bug you though, right?

Yikes R162 has got some personal issues . Well said r163

Yeah, I'm the one with issues when you call Steve Lacy an "unproblematically masc young god". He'd think you were lame for that.

“Bless your fucking heart that you think DL cares about "street cred" or leading a "straight collective".”

I don’t know what argument your having internally but good luck timing at that windmill. But to my actual point ...do you not see this as progress: that straight guy’s are joyously memeing and singing about giving head; that an openly gay man is UNQUESTIONABLY and FULLY respected as the head of a bunch of hetero rappers ?really, you don’t see that as significant, worth celebrating? You’d rather engage in bitchy sanctimonious fake woke point scoring?

Tilting at that windmill*

What could possibly be your motivation for hyping this sack of shit?

R166 you obviously don’t understand what I was saying

I'm not investing in appealing to straight men. I'd hope that Kevin Abstract isn't either.

I'm sceptical about "UNQUESTIONABLY" and "FULLY" - I recognise your writing style from the Steve Lacy and Frank Ocean threads. You write like a PR intern. None of those named need you as their hype man. Enthusiasm is great but I feel your emphasis on straight, masc is misplaced and has little to do with any of these artists.

I ment a BILLBOARD link bruh. Like something factual to back up your claim.

R169 whats YOUR motivation in your posting in soap,opera and Doris Day threads? People like different things. And some of us have taste

*invested.

I think it's great that artists like the aforementioned can be out and not edit themselves in their work or on social media. But I couldn't give a fuck if they receive a "straight" sign of approval any more than if they were co-signed by someone white.

Interns gotta intern R169. It's probably a relative too or Kevin himself trying to make something out of some kid NO ONE has ever heard about. And he definitely never blew up bruh.

“You write like a PR intern. “

Change the fucking record. The monomania and paranoia is getting old.

OMG is this Abstract intern Janbot? Both make claims about musicians that can be easily debunked and they can never link to prove the big lies. hhhmm...

Boring as fuck

Yeah because the ideal demo to drum-up interest in the concerts and merch for a hip hop collective naturally be on a message board full of 60+ Bette Midler fans 🤔

The rationality here — it burns

R177 debunk away. I’ll wait ...

Her undercarriage always smelled vaguely of vomit 🤢

“But I couldn't give a fuck if they receive a "straight" sign of approval any more than if they were co-signed by someone white.”

R174 Clearly doesn’t mentally venture outside “their” queer affirming safe-space ghetto. And don’t put words in my mouth, I didn’t say anything about seeking approval. I’m talking about widespread success beyond the gay ghetto and y’know getting money. If Kevin and Steve Lacy only wanted straight approval they’d be in the fucking closet. You are an idiot incapable of reasonable debate.

So no on a link to Billboard?

Find it yourself you lazy cunt

“Elsewhere on the chart, G-Eazy’s The Beautiful & Damned debuted at #3 and Jeezy’s Pressure hit the ground running at #6, while Brockhampton’s Saturation III made its entrance in the Top 20. With 36,418 total album equivalent units sold, 24,935 pure album sales and a streaming count of 16,860,739, it was enough to earn the California-based collective a #15 spot.”

One of the many places posting it

It was your brag/lie about Billboard not mine. You made a claim he 'blew up' b/c of Billboard but you post to every other site but Billboard. Cunt.

Reasoned debate? Amid your overblown statements? No chance.

OK some intern tried to PR some nobody saying he'd blow up. Obviously he failed and lied about it. Bored now of the demolished intern. Adios.

I don’t know how to navigate their site. But what an idiot you are to doubt the top industry hip hop blog. I guess it’s all a conspiracy trying to hoodwink you specifically.

Also here’s the CEO of Empire records — BH’s CD distributor

Hey r179 --- No one said PR rep management interns weren't **stoopit** to be flogging this nobody here.

There you go. Now apologise and shut up. YOU LOSE 😎🤣

FYI There is no Kevin Abstract on that chart.

R190 don't deflect. Clearly it’s not remotely feasible for a band to hire a PR to shill to pensioners, and particularly not a non-signed group with 15 fucking members. You are a dolt. But I enjoy you seething at my zeitgeist-y predictive prowess. I win. Bow down

FFS, r192 - what's the point of being argumentative about something you don't know the first thing about?

Fuck off don’t even try it. Kevin Abstract AND Brockhampton are the subject of this thread

She couldn’t even carry a series on viceland

LOL the series did well — quite an achievement getting one in the first place — and most likely will get another series.

BOYBAND R194!!! All of this over a boyband???? LOL. I love DL.

Even today, 500k viewers isn’t ‘doing well’

They're only called a boyband because Kevin insists on it, r198.

YouTube Dom breaking down 😢😭

LOL a “boyband” !!! That was the best plot twist in this thread. Thank you for the biggest laugh I’ve had today ! Let me know when they go on tour with new kids on the block.

this little brown boy is "about to blow up" as well as being "woke".

black men won't buy a gay rapper.

Are you in this boyband too R203? Do you know any of he guys from N’SYNC?

Nah..

Sad sack, downbeat pity tracks.

Nah. What you see there (or rather you refuse to see ) is versatility. They do it ALL. Rap, pop rap, straight pop, indie, shoegaze, bangers, ballads, even Death Grips type shit

Gay shit and drug shit

Okay dis a bit much... but these pieces are proliferating because they are becoming big in meme culture assell as think pieces

As well as*

R207 try again, grandpa

Lachrymose af 🤣

Which other boyband would you liken them to? Backstreet, N'SYNC, 98*? Or another that I'm not thinking of. Take That maybe? I LOVE them.

Which track features Lulu?

SHILL

[quote]The only thing I DO regret is the “bisexual” descriptor ...LOL noooo. Why can’t people be happy that an openly gay man is finally making it in hip hop (and other creative endeavours) aand — as the leader of a mostly straight collective— and getting critical respect as well as street cred ?

OP, what happened? Is Kevin no longer identifying as bisexual? Or is this just your impression that he's actually gay?

I think there’s a certain amount of irony in the insistence ofn“boyband” ibut don’t doubt they genuinely love pop in a Warholian sense seeing the potential in it not least the teen and young gay super fans — the last ones still buying music to support their young heroes. Also I think it’s to head off old head hip hop bigots objections by short circuiting and owning their “softness” and turning it to their advantage. Clever postmodern shit. Plus they now have the latitude to flex their full range of influences without being hamstrungbto any one genre

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

R217 after the intial faffing about subsequently he has never seemed anything other than unambiguously explicit about being “gay” He might possibly be bi but he certainly doesn’t publicly identify that way.

R219 who dat?

Another “sad sack pity song”

JOHNNY From Sat III

Boyband, LOL.

Jaden Smith tryna hop on the Brockhampton wave

R223 No. GREATEST BOYBAND IN THE WORLD, to be precise

God god. The memes, the memes!

OMG they are a boyband!! Ha ha!!

And? The Jacksons. The Monkeys. All great

kings of versatility

Here’s Matt’s solo stuff acommpanied and produced by his Brockhampton band mates

Accompanied *

....

Ameer Vann solo. The feels 😢

I find Ameer so hot. Amazing he’s only 21

So charismatic

Matt champion. One of the straight ones. No really. Love these guys

[quote] they genuinely love pop in a Warholian sense

That's just the right word, r218; I was just about to compare Kevin's use of the term "boyband" with Warhol's use of "superstar".

In fact, he puts me in mind of Warhol in other ways as well. I realize that Tyler the Creator and Odd Future are certainly a more direct inspiration for him, but that whole template of leading a collective that lives together and creates art in different kinds of media (in Brockhampton's case, music and film) really goes back to Warhol and his Factory. And Kevin seems very Warhol-like (minus the malign elements) in how he activates others' creativity and pressures them to realize their artistic potential, with Brockhampton's hyperactivity. In his livestreams, he sometimes just walks up to one of his friends and points the camera at them until they do or say something that might be interesting - it's such a Warhol thing to do.

❤️

[quote] to those who think i can only rap about being gay, you’re right. that’s all i can and wanna rap about. go listen to some straight shit if u don’t wanna hear me talk about sucking my boyfriends dick.

Oh god . Not this boyband’s PR intern again. F/F.

Wow. That’s the boldest yet. I lowkey worry about his gay shtick dominating whole bands image —especially “gays only” nonsense — and wrecking BHs potential superstar success. Especially considering the vast majority of them are straight. Is it fair that his narrative overshadow the rest ?

Cute

Aww

I thought this snow queen was supposed to be the next "Big Thing"?

He wasn’t. It was just some over zealous PR intern. He never “happened”.

His little BF better be prepared to move out once Shawn Mendes starts sitting on Kevin's dick and starts buy him houses and shit!

Shawn started following him on Twitter.

I haven't seen this young man even once on American Bandstand yet. Clearly he's going nowhere.

It's so tedious that whenever anyone expresses an interest in anything that's not mainstream, it's assumed to be PR ...like these guys would waste their time trying to promote hip hop on DL of all places.

LOL dis good

Major new advertising campaign for our bois for Converse 💰🤑 🌟

A e s t h e t i c AF Click to see the full set. And lots of bro cuddles

Washington Post concert review. 🚀

Despite what Internet humor may indicate, Brockhampton is neither a CW teen drama, a prestigious boarding school, nor a style or brand of shoe. Brockhampton's members adamantly refer to themselves as a boy band. And not just any boy band — "the greatest boy band in the world," as they proclaimed during Sunday night's sold-out show at the Fillmore Silver Spring. It's an audacious statement, but Brockhampton has the bandwidth and confidence to attempt to support it. Brockhampton — established in Texas and based in Los Angeles — consists of more than a dozen members: rappers, producers, even photographers. The group, which functions as its own ­full-service creative agency, saw its popularity soar in 2017 after releasing the well-received "Saturation" trilogy and starring in the Viceland miniseries "American Boyband." Their model isn't original (it's easy, if lazy, to draw parallels to Odd Future and A$AP Mob), but it's working in their favor because of an ambition and verve that connects with like-minded spirits worldwide. Raw energy and enthusiasm go a long way for Brockhampton. It helps them collectively pick up one another's slack, which proved vital Sunday night as founding member and de facto leader Kevin Abstract struggled with his voice after falling ill. Boosted by a seemingly endless supply of confidence, the group has earned a cultlike following that helps it sell out venues such as the Fillmore Silver Spring with ease. "Best boy band since One Direction," the group announced on "Boogie," bouncing across the stage in the orange jumpsuits they wear in many videos. Rapper Ameer Vann put in extra work on the up-tempo "Star," performing the ailing Abstract's verse in addition to his own. While Brockhampton excels at remaining lively, Sunday night's performances of "Swamp," "Gold" and "Jello" are evidence that the group accomplishes this without needing to be raucous on every song. The vivacity of the bass-heavy "Bump" is Brockhampton at its finest because it blends perfect discord with a somber hook from Abstract: "And when this ends, at least I'll have a reason to live." The group urged the crowd Sunday night to sing the latter like it was their "last time on Earth" to support Abstract. Buoyant energy, however, is not all Brockhampton has to offer. A magnetic, two-song solo set from artist and producer Bearface was a strong change of pace, as the Northern Ireland transplant ripped through the guitar solo on "Summer" and drew boy-band-worthy screams with his falsetto on "Team." "Are y'all still alive out there?" the group asked afterward. Brockhampton shows are a blitz of energy — all of it positive, though. And for that reason, they can make a rainy Sunday night in January feel like a sunny Saturday morning in June.

Any tea on KYLE? He's pretty cute

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R255 Well, he’s besties with out bi Taylor Bennett so who knows... (That said, the insinuations around friendships between hets and non-hets is fucking toxic and all too easy to fall into Q.E.D.)

Someone upthread asked about Nick’s sexuality (and BH fans don’t know either)— well peep the background at ~1:03: 00 in the Saturation Documentary for some interesting and unexpected homoerotic contact. Am I imagining it or is that peculiarly intimate gesture for just bros (even by Brockhampton standards)?

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All the major festivals too — and in a respectable position on the billboard (their not even a year as a touring band yet)

Big Bucks Bois.

Here’s an example of ya shitty pandering “queer” artist who gets lorded by the lgbt press but is revealed to be a trash human

They done blued up

One of the boy’s (Dom) girlfriend—whom was presumably thrown out the shared house and is blocked by most of them on twitter—is making threatening bunnyboiler tweets. Dom broke down on stage a few weeks ago because of the stress she was bringing him (he’s attempted suicide a few times in the past). Meanwhile it ps pretty much confirmed that Joba is dating Bob Marley’s granddaughter

Ameer the philosopher king bouncing dat ass

Vision thing

Anselm Elgort at NY concert

With Kevin’s BF Jayden

Antony Fantano the internets busiest music nerd (and most influential music critic alive today) at NY concert listening to his namecheck in the song

“Their doing something really significant..doing something really important..there’re art is gonna leave an impression”

Yes Anthony STAN these kings!!!

I LOVE how masculine and swagged Jayden is

Calvin Klein