LGBTQ+ Hip Hop
LGBTQ+ hip hop is rap made by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer artists, often with lyrics about queer life and identity.
It is grouped by who makes it, not by one sound, so it ranges from trap and pop rap to New Orleans bounce and club music. An organized scene, sometimes called homo hop, formed in California in the 1990s in response to homophobia in mainstream rap. Since the 2010s, openly queer rappers have reached the charts.
Artists it is known for: Lil Nas X, Mykki Blanco, Big Freedia.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- United States, 1990s
- Also called
- homo hop, queer hip hop, lgbt hip hop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 19%
About 16,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have lgbtq+ hip hop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
LGBTQ+ Hip Hop artists
Frank Ocean
Lil Peep
Lil Nas X
KAYTRANADA
Azealia Banks
Kevin Abstract
The InternetThe lgbtq+ hip hop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.