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I don’t even like talking to DL boys anymore, you know? But it happens in that time frame between 17 and 24. I feel every single gay person’s fallen in love with a straight person. It was also about falling in love with a straight boy. That song is sublime, and I think it’s one of the clearest articulations of queer yearning I’ve ever heard. “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” became the most listened-to song detailing overt Black gay male desire in American popular culture. The single’s visuals, too, struck chords heretofore unstruck: There was overt faggotry, an invocation of Satan worship, and the specter of the many American children, including my nieces and nephew, who would know almost every word. That line, in and of itself, is a frighteningly honest encapsulation of the loneliness of being young, Black, and queer, searching for affirmations in all the wrong places. But for every feature I did ask for on this album, like, every single one of them worked…besides Drake and Nicki. When you were working on the album, how many times did the people you reached out to for features say, “No, thank you”? I don’t usually ask for features like that. There are too many other wins to be upset. Drake, with this huge album and the most first-week sales of the year. Everybody was like, “One-hit-wonder this, one-hit-wonder that.” And now it’s amazing that my competition was Drake. Nobody even thought that I would be here. Then I got out of it, and all I thought about was how blessed I am. I’m sure you felt that when your album, Montero, didn’t go No.
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I know a lot of people see that as a bad thing, but people have to work harder to stay in this place. I feel like it’s knocking down the walls. Why do you think it does? Because there’s a new age of celebrities, and I don’t think a lot of people are comfortable with it. What’s wrong with “influencer,” though? Why does influencer have such a bad connotation? On the internet, they call me an “influencer playwright,” and that’s their way of diminishing me and what I do. Because part of the reason my play Slave Play got so popular was because I worked outside of the normal bounds of what people do in the theater.