Christian rapper Dee-1 says music exec pressured him to engage in “homosexual act” for record deal
Slingshot David, a reference to the biblical story of David and Goliath, back in 2019. He currently boasts 600K followers on Instagram, 166K subscribers on YouTube, and 85,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.But he recently suggested that his follower count could be double, triple, maybe even quadruple that amount… if only he were willing to engage in gay sex acts.Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.In a new interview with the Art of Dialogue podcast, the 34-year-old indie artist from New Orleans claimed he could have had a much bigger career under a major record label if he had entertained the sexual provocations of powerful male music execs.“Bro, I’ve had gatekeepers in the music industry who have literally tried to hold a record deal behind their back and let me know like, ‘Look, if you a part of this homosexual act that I’m tryna take part in?
Yeah, come on! This door’ll open real quick for you.’,” he alleged.He added, “This is real, dog. And the only way that type of stuff can work on you is if you let them have all the leverage to where you want what’s behind that gate that bad.
So that’s a real thing.”Dee-1, who was raised Catholic and identifies as a “Man of God”, signed with the RCA Inspiration, the gospel division of RCA Records, owned by Sony Music in 2013.
