Very early this morning, Makonnen Sheran—better known as the rapper iLoveMakonnen—announced on Twitter that he is gay.
https://twitter.com/iLoveMakonnen5D/status/822353517448835072
https://twitter.com/iLoveMakonnen5D/status/822353737146470400
Makonnen refers to the revelation as “old news,” and indeed in a New York Times profile published in April 2015, Makonnen seemed to intimate that he was queer:
“The rap world…