Isaiah Rashad remained quiet for months following the sex tape leak featuring the Top Dawg Entertainment rapper in February, a blatant invasion of privacy. During his Coachella debut on Saturday (April 16), Rashad broke his silence, shedding a tear during a performance of “Wat’s Wrong” from 2016’s The Sun’s Tirade as he talked about being outed on the internet.
Using a video montage from other people’s reactions to the tape, such as The Game on Drink Champs, The Joe Budden Podcast and more, Rashad addressed the issue head-on. “The purpose of doing that was to embarrass him,” one of the voices said during the clip. “However, it backfired. When his video leaked, his streams and everything went up.”
Elsewhere in his set, Rashad addressed the crowd and thanked them for supporting him through one of the more difficult periods in his life.
“I see all the messages and all the positivity,” he said. “Y’all kept me alive these last couple months.”
Throughout his set, Rashad kept the energy wavering between high and mellow, even bringing out newly signed TDE artist Doechii for a performance of their “Wat U Sed” single from 2021’s The House Is Burning.
TDE President Punch Checks Rapper Clowning Isaiah Rashad’s Sexuality
The support for Rashad has been overflowing, not only from his TDE camp but also Hip Hop in general. Earlier this month, TDE president Terrence “Punch” Henderson checked an aspiring rapper for talking down on Rashad, claiming he was “top dawgin’ a cock.”
“Wait.. so you want me to be concerned about another grown man’s sex life??” he tweeted. “Is that what you’re really interested in? As oppose to having a dialogue about music??”
The rapper later deleted the tweet once he saw Punch’s response but double-backed and apologized for the disrespect, saying he’d been a big Rashad fan all along.
Good for him.Ignore the dummies
He should be able to be who he is, but I don’t exactly know how that shit is going to work in hip hop. It’s just an ultra masculine genre, and yeah, we’ve had closeted rappers in the past, but that’s why they were closeted. Rapping has a lot of its roots in playing the dozens on wax or saying the most clever shit to disrespect the next man, so that gay shit is not going to be off limits when people bring him up. I hope he finds his lane though for those who are a fan of his because from the little I’ve heard of him over the years, he does have some talent.
Is that supposed to be a joke? Maybe in the 90s and early 2000s it was more masculine. Have you seen the status quo in Hiphop today? Dudes wearing skinny jeans, leggings, dying they hair, rappers gifting other rappers earrings,dudes being more into fashion then females, wearing purses etc.
I don’t have shit to do with how they dress. Prince wore heels, but his music was ultra masculine. Not to mention that today’s rappers dress outrageous just like some of the earliest rappers in the 80s who dressed up full tilt. If you can’t separate the two, I don’t know what to tell you. Fact is that every rapper has big booty strippers in their videos. The women rappers talk about fucking and sucking and switching with other women to please men. Every rapper talks about how many bitches they fuck and how they’ll take the next man’s girl. All of this is the definition of toxic masculinity.
He’s getting all this sympathy for being a gay thot who leaked his own sex tape? Bet Top made him do it because gay sells nowadays. Anything for attention, I guess.
Good for you… but please act accordingly: stop showing big booty bitches in your videos and rapping about pussies when you actually have an appetite for dicks. It does not take anything from your talent. The fans will accept you as gay/straight/tranny or anything else as long as you are YOU.
Did you forget that someone can be bi lol. You know you can in fact double dip
Maybe he likes both. So he can do what the fuck he wants
Maybe he likes both. So he can do what the fuck he wants
Now Isaiah, Frank Ocean, Lil Nas and Young Thug have to form a rap group called “The Almighty Fisters”
Hahahaha! Get outta here!
Enjoy ya journey without Me Isaiah. Wish you all the best but there are something’s you just can’t unsee. I’m glad your enjoying a new success thanks to a tape of you with other men , personally it sounds like a cheap way to boost your relevancy but hey… It’s 2022, whatever the phuck that means anymore!
Well… he probably doesn’t give a fuck if you’re not following him on his “journey”. He’ll keep selling ticket shows and cashing stream revenues.
lil nas x fall off rn this isaiah was always for casuals neither great nor bad that miles better than generic basura lnx throw and get praised for it
Take the positive black meat in your ashole…
The Music Industry Been Busting Them Cheeks
I refuse to believe any support that this guy received is authentic. Rappers are always hammering the idea of dudes sucking each other off. It’s just another case of being safe from harm becay of being a celebrity.
Do you know how gay the entertainment industry is in general? Times just have changed, and they are going with the flow. Some of them won’t. However, corporations who have a lot of gay people in them are responsible for most of your rap stars’ careers today because they run the shit. Therefore, these people aren’t trying to piss off their bosses just like 99% of the world. Your random hood cats with their ear to the streets aren’t running the rap game in 2022.
A whole lot of hypocrites in HipHop, goes for rappers and fans. I personally don’t give a shit who is gay but y’all some real pick and choose when it suits y’all type of ni**as. A lot of the same people who say they rockin with IR but saying Lil Nas X need to die etc. Where is that old ass mf Boosie and why he so quiet on this? I thought Boosie was all about calling out gayness in hiphop?…..hypocrite, lmao.
Boosie did speak on it very briefly when Vlad asked him about it but Boosie was like “who?” acting like he ain’t know who he is lol. Boosie likely picked on Nas x because he ain’t on a label like TDE
I think it has more to do with that Nas X is being promoted heavily in the mainstream. Most pop fans have no idea who this dude is. I love hip hop, and I barely have checked for him, but I do know who he is. That’s where people rightly or wrongly refer to the gay agenda because they feel like that the powers that be are pushing it, which no one can deny that the industry gave Nas X a very big push.
Lil Nas X is performing half naked while tongue kissing his male dancers on stage. It’s just disgusting and it need to be adressed. Isaiah is not doing that. His gay shit got leaked to his detriment. Whereas Lil Nas X is groping his male partners on a broadcasted show in front of the masses with kids watching it.
The real issue here is that this fool was having gay sex and keeping it secret from the mother of his children, this reckless pos could have given her HIV which could be passed on to they child too. There ain’t nothing noble about what this weirdo did.
That reckless pos can pass HIV through a random groupie too sir from “straight” or gay interaction. STDs don’t have a sexual preference, anybody can get it…
While you are correct with your point, it’s also worth mentioning the fact that the prevalence and transmission of STD’s like HIV are far more common in the gay community.
That actually no longer correct HIV in the straight community has surpassed the gay community. Probably because of education in the gay community and straight mens insistence on the raw dogging and the “pull out method”
Wrong, the study you’re referring to was one done in the last year in the UK only, where the number of HIV cases in the hetro community had surpassed those in the gay community for the first time ever. However the numbers in the US reflect differently
good for him! zay is great and I wish him the best! also, f*ck the homophobes and ignorant people who think you can’t like BOTH girls and boys (he could be gay or bi). This is gonna piss off some of you that think it’s weird, when ain’t it weird you judging someone on their personal choice? a grown adult at that? if you think it’s “weird,” you prolly do weird stuff as well. u prolly suck feet bozo. get a life.
Spoken like a true weirdo lol
This guy ain’t no hero to me. Don’t care what he does in his personal life but what I’ve heard and read doesn’t impress me and doesn’t make me want to listen to his music. he’s not a victim and that’s all there is to it. he made his choices and if there’s consequences he’ll have to face them. if he’s a good guy down deep I don’t know if he’s seeking out these sorts of experiences. that is my view
Imagine paying to go see this sausage swallowers show to listen to him rapping about fucking bitches lol
Yet another fake Muslim in hiphop……..NEXT!!
He never said he was Muslim
Surprised 50 ain’t ripped this guy to shreds yet lmao
Fifty doesn’t clown people to clown people. For instance, that Hot 97 DJ he has always supported even when he had his scandals with the transsexuals. He’s had issues with Buck and Benzeno, so he’s using it to joke on them.
He clowned Lil Nas X and he ain’t beefing with him
He does a lot of clown shit to get ridiculed about. Dude had a whole ass video twerking on the devil. That’s not exactly flying under the radar.
“Top dawgin’ a cock” LMFAO
Yeah man don’t worry about that dumb shit. Live life and enjoy life as you see fit. Congratulations for staying positive during this difficult invasion of privacy.
That’s wussup. We need to keep exposin these downlow punks. This how HIV gets spread in the community. And distrust and infinite other negativities. Just be real with yourself and everyone else about who you are and let people make their own decisions if they want to fucc wit u or not! It shouldn’t take a leaked video for people to find out you were completely something else other than what you were trying to present to people!!!! Be honest!!!
That’s true man,in the gay community we don’t have that many rapper and actor, to support us because they think it’s going to hurt there imagine but who cares and who to judge it’s all about respect yourself and your fans if they like you or not
Bothered him so much he had to make a 2 minute video at a concert about it lol aw. Poor guy.
WHY IS HE HOLDING THE MIC LIKE THAT THO?
So if video didn’t leak, he’ll still be on the downlow sucking men then hanging with women. It’s not cool to be down low.
You can’t be a Muslim and be gay. Period