Le1f, Gay Rapper, Blasts 'Transphobic' Criticism

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NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: Le1f performs onstage at 130 Hope Street on October 17, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Roger Kisby/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: Le1f performs onstage at 130 Hope Street on October 17, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Roger Kisby/Getty Images)

Openly gay rapper Le1f took to Twitter last night to address criticism over allegations of transphobia from the Twitterverse.

Le1f, who has been praised for his subversive work as a queer artist in a traditionally homophobic music genre, seems to have been set off by this tweet:

This led him to unleash to following tirade on on the Twitterverse:

just because i don't want to be called trans by homophobic people doesn't make me transphobic.

— Le1f ☥ (@LE1FNY) January 8, 2014

i've seen some friends become themselves, & become more beautiful people through their transitions & i support them totally, as they do me.

— Le1f ☥ (@LE1FNY) January 8, 2014

let me set all y'all straight– 1. i'm not transphobic, 2. macklemore used to follow me on instagram & knows of me thru Das Racist ...

— Le1f ☥ (@LE1FNY) January 8, 2014

and 3. i'm not from Harlem or Brooklyn. i'm from midtown Manhattan. and yes, it's still the hood over here.

— Le1f ☥ (@LE1FNY) January 8, 2014

and yes i mention my friends, cuz you know what i value more than anyone's race, gender, or sexuality? my fuckin friendships. not ur tweets.

— Le1f ☥ (@LE1FNY) January 8, 2014

honestly, nothing sets me off like being called transphobic.more so than being constantly gaybashed as 'trans'.it's all very sad, tbh.

— Le1f ☥ (@LE1FNY) January 8, 2014

i should've stayed in the closet & just been actually sexist and homophobic. then i'd be on the radio, and you guys would sing along anyway.

— Le1f ☥ (@LE1FNY) January 8, 2014

This isn't the first time Le1f has taken to Twitter to sound off issues surrounding his role as a gay rapper in the LGBT community. In late August, he blasted Macklemore for allegedly ripping off his song "Wut."

Additionally, he called Macklemore out over the success of same-sex marriage anthem "Same Love," slamming him for benefiting, as a straight man, from a video focused on a gay relationship. "That time that straight white dude ripped off my song then made a video about gay interracial love and made a million dollars," Le1f wrote in a series of now-deleted tweets.

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