Angela Yee On Lil B's 'Gay' LP, "It's Like When Nas Wanted To Call His Album 'N*gger'"

Although Yee supports the album title, she admits Lil B will likely continue to face criticism from the hip-hop community.

"Personally, I like Lil B," Ang told SOHH. "I know a lot of people are critical of him, obviously he has a whole lot of fans out there and yes, hip-hop is definitely very homophobic. I understand his point in what he was trying to say. He said, 'I'm gay', [and] gay means happy. He's said he's not a homosexual, but I think it is going to be very difficult for an artist to come out and say they are homosexual in this climate. But, I also feel like it could be a very groundbreaking situation and may even have a lot of support in the gay community. I think [in reference to] Lil B, people think that it's a gimmick and I feel he's probably going to have a lot of that support." (SOHH)

Ang also compared the title's controversy to Nas' renamed 2008 album, Untitled.
"Even with dance artists or big R&B artists like Beyonce, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, who has a huge gay fan base, those are the people that are going out and buying the albums and showing support," Yee added. "So I feel like the same thing could potentially happen for somebody like Lil B where the gay community could really embrace and support him [whether he's gay or not]. It's a statement that's made that has people talking. It's like when Nas decided he wanted to call his [2008] album N*gger. It didn't work out, but there was a huge uproar over that. I think anything that creates dialogue in our community is a good thing." (SOHH) Following B's album title announcement in mid-April, Yee publicly expressed her opinion on the move.

"I love that @LILBTHEBASEDGODnamed his album "I'm Gay." Tooooo much!," she tweeted April 17th. (Angela Yee's Twitter)

Lil B announced the album title during last month's Coachella music concert in California.

"I'm gonna do the most controversial thing in hip-hop," B said while performing at Coachella in Indio, California. "Y'all heard it hear first. And I'm gonna just show y'all that words don't mean sh*t. I'm gonna make an album called 'I'm Gay.' Now I'm gonna tell y'all why I'm the first person to do it in hip-hop and why y'all are the first people to know my reason...First of all, gay means happy. I like women, I love women, you feel me? But it just shows me, no matter what you do, live life, you only got one life to live, be happy. F*ck the hating." (YouTube)