Isaiah Rashad saw his private life hit the headlines on Wednesday (February 9) after a sex tape leaked online. The footage showed the TDE rapper both giving and receiving oral sex from other men, which came as a surprise to many fans.
Despite the success of openly gay artists such as Lil Nas X and Brockhampton’s Kevin Abstract, homosexuality remains something of a taboo topic within Hip Hop, as evidenced by DaBaby’s homophobic rant at Rolling Loud Miami last summer and Boosie Badazz’s repeated attacks against Lil Nas X.
Fortunately, Isaiah Rashad has received an outpouring of support from across the rap community since the revelation about his sexuality. Fellow Tennessee native and 2022 HipHopDX Rising Star Duke Deuce, who appeared on Zaywop’s 2021 album The House Is Burning, was one of the first to come to his defence.
“Another man’s preference ain’t got shit to do with me nor anyone else,” he tweeted on Wednesday night. “Isaiah Rashad you a great mf artist keep your head up brother. CRUNKSTARZ dgaf what others think of them.”
Hot 97 DJ and radio/podcast personality Peter Rosenberg also lent his support by tweeting, “@isaiahrashad one of the best young artists and coolest people in the game … I will always rock with this dude … love the last record so much.”
Meanwhile, The Cool Kids’ Chuck Inglish applauded the overwhelmingly supportive responses by writing, “Seeing the Timeline not switch up on Isaiah was a moment in time. A testament to him as a person.”
Miami native Zoey Dollaz, Atlanta rapper Deante’ Hitchcock — who appeared on the deluxe edition of The House Is Burning — and Pro Era’s CJ Fly also backed the beloved Chattanooga MC with supportive tweets of their own.
Isaiah Rashad has yet to address the topic publicly. The 30-year-old rhymer is just the latest victim of a sex tape leak this week after Nelly and BS2K’s Lil Fizz also saw lewd videos of their own spread across social media.
Isaiah Rashad Sex Tape Leaks Online - Outing Him In The Process
In Nelly’s case, a video of him receiving oral sex from a woman was mistakenly uploaded to his Instagram Stories, for which he apologized shortly after.
“I sincerely apologize to the young lady and her family, this is unwanted publicity for her/them,” the St. Louis hitmaker said. “This was an old video that was private and never meant to go public.”
muslim’s turning homo. i would watch my back.
Y’all trying to do Isaiah Rashad dirty with that headline picture. SMH. What this man does in his own time is NONE of y’all’s concern. Knock this shit off. If y’all really wanted to help him you wouldn’t of run the initial story in the first place.
That g@y agenda the powers that be been forcing down our throats the last decade is real! I say that to say, it was a big contrast from Isaiah to Nelly. Nelly, the timeline was full of jokes and slander, Isaiah was full of support. I’m just here for the music, I don’t care what none of these cats do in the dark, I just wish they private moments stay private.
I agree with your agenda comment but you shouldn’t wish that for things like this to be kept secret. What they do in private and in the dark NEEDS to be brought to the light because it educates the masses and shows you how these industry dudes get down.
Might I remind you of a certain, well-respected hip hop legend verbally confessing to drinking his own semen and urine? Or what about the image of another hip hop legend butt naked with his hand on his male friends’ shoulder and pointing to camera?
Nore wasn’t joking when he told us about the g@y door rappers enter for fame and fortune.
I suppose you don’t give a shit about women being manipulated into giving it up, but since its men and you’re probably insecure about your own sexuality, its a secret plot to keep black folk from having babies! Y’all turbo stupid. As opposed to the straight agenda, and all the nasty history of it. Weirdos.
Also, gay people are regular, rational people and 99% of them aren’t fucking drinking piss out of a cup. That’s called psychosis and mental illness.
You supposedly straight dudes care more about gay people than gay people care about gay people.
Guess the album title really was THIB “The Hole Is Burning” lol
So TDE stands for Top Dick Entertainment??? Pause as fuck son.