Makonnen Says Migos Apology For Gay Comments Was Fake

Makonnen didn’t view coming out as gay as a big deal, it was just something that needed to be done.

“It’s just me and my life,” the singer and rapper recently told The Fader. “I’m living. I’m 27. The world is changing, right? Donald Trump [was] about to make his big announcement on the goddamn 20th [of January]. Everybody know I’m gay and s–t, so it’s like, ‘I might as well go ahead and make my little announcement to the world so I can move on with my life.’ I said whatever I said in my tweet, and then I moved on with it. Here goes America, let me focus on that!”

After years of speculation about his sexuality, Makonnen told his mom he was gay shortly before making the same announcement to his fans in a series of January tweets.

“Someone said to me next time they see me, they was gonna f–k me, I said next time I see me, I’m gonna love me up,” he tweeted, before continuing, “As a fashion icon, I can’t tell u about everybody else’s closet, I can only tell u about mine, and it’s time I’ve come out.”

Makonnen said that compared to some of the other challenges he’s had to face in his life, coming out was minor in comparison.

“I’ve been a fighting mother–ker, I’ve been living, I’ve been to jail, I done did the real s–t already,” he explained. “Saying I’m gay, that’s like, ‘Oh s–t, I’m man enough!’ In this current day and age, where everybody is being so real and so out, and so, you know, straightforward, I was like, ‘I guess I might as well be part of the movement, right?’”

While many have shown support for Makonnen since his tweets, other members of the rap community have been less understanding, including the group Migos, who Makonnen previously worked with on the song “Whip It.”

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Migos were asked about the singer’s coming out, and while they claimed to have nothing against the “gays,” their response heavily suggested they felt it undermined his credibility (“That’s wack, bro,” Quavo was quoted as saying). The next day, after much criticism, Migos attempted to backtrack from the statements.

Apology or no, Makonnen made clear he doesn’t buy his former collaborators’ sincerity one bit.

“With friends like these, who needs enemies? And now you gotta come back with some sorry-ass excuse. Nah. That’s only cause you got the No. 1 record and you didn’t wanna f–k it up,” he said.

He also wondered why a group of emcees who broke through thanks to a song about iconic gay figure Gianni Versace felt the need to turn on him.

“Hell nah, they ain’t got no problem with gay people!” he said. “They f–kin’ song is “Versace”! Like, the f–k! N—a Versace is the gayest n—a. They ain’t got issues with him, why they got issues with me?”

SOURCE