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Isaiah Rashad Grappled With Sexuality While Making His New Album: ‘It Made Me Confront a Lot of Stuff’

Isaiah Rashad candidly talked about the lows in his life throughout the past 5 years and how they made him grapple with his own sexuality.

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Isaiah Rashad has been through a lot in the five years since The House is Burning. A sex tape was leaked non-consensually, leading him to have to wrestle with himself publicly before he was ready.

This led to a continued struggle with drugs and alcohol, as well as grappling with his sense of sexuality. “At some point in time, I accepted that they don’t make a manual for being a bisexual Black dude,” Rashad told The Breakfast Club.

All of this led to him making It’s Been Awful, his long-awaited follow-up, released on May 1st. During his conversation with The Breakfast Club, Isaiah Rashad candidly admitted to struggling........

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