Lucas and Chris Brown announced a collaborative project titled Angels & Demons on February 25, 2018, with the project's first single " Stranger Things" releasing the following day.
The video was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 61st Grammy Awards, but lost to Childish Gambino's " This Is America". The controversial song is about race and society, and race relations from the perspectives of a white man and a black man. The music video quickly went viral and gained critical acclaim. On November 28, 2017, Lucas released the single " I'm Not Racist" via his YouTube channel. Ever since 2016, Lucas has also become known for remixing popular hip hop songs. The mixtape charted at #7 on the Heatseekers Albums chart on Billboard and contained the singles "I'm Sorry", "Ultrasound", "Just Like You" and "Winter Blues". Lucas went on to release a project titled 50 on June 16, 2017, with Atlantic Records. Lucas signed to Atlantic Records on September 21, 2016. Originally intended to appear in the online-only cypher, he was later promoted to rap as part of the live broadcast cyphers based on the strength of his initial performance. Following the success of the song, Lucas was featured in the 2015 BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher. This mixtape contained his critically acclaimed "Ross Capicchioni". His next mixtape, Along Came Joyner, was released on April 5, 2015. He released his first mixtape under this new moniker in 2013, titled LFO's (Low Frequency Oscillators). After rapper Future came to prominence, Lucas dropped the "Future" from his name and continued as Joyner Lucas. Lucas released his first solo mixtape, titled Listen to Me, in 2011. That year they released Workprint: The Greatest Mixtape of All Time. Joyner Lucas first started rapping under the name G-Storm, but by 2007 had changed his stage name to Future Joyner and started working with his cousin Cyrus tha Great, forming a group called Film Skool Rejekts.
He began rapping at the age of 10 and attended South High Community School in Worcester.Ĭareer 2007–2017: Early beginnings, record deal, and 50 was born on August 17, 1988, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
A full version of the track appeared online on October 31st, 2019. On October 28, 2019, a snippet of the track sufaced online. The honest-to-God truth is that none of that matters to me: I have no issue with someone’s sexuality, religion, race, none of that.
So when I started getting flack for it, I thought, Alright, you people think I’m homophobic… I was trying to push the buttons of people who were calling me something that I wasn’t. The first time I got a taste of being called anti-gay was on ‘My Name Is’ when I said, ‘My English teacher wanted to have sex in junior high / The only problem was my English teacher was a guy.’ All I was saying was I don’t swing that way. Em addressed the accusations during a December 2017 interview with Vulture: Precisely, Eminem has been attacked for homophobic lyrics and comments, which the title plays on. Eminem – What If I Was Gay?Īmerican rapper, Joyner Lucas teams up with Legendary rapstar, Eminem on a new track titled “ What If I Was Gay?.”Įminem and Joyner Lucas links up on a collaboration “What If I Was Gay.” On the new song the dup talked about the controversies they’ve been facing throughout their respective careers.