YOUR FAVORITE MTV SHOWS ARE ON PARAMOUNT+

'Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood' Special Gets Real About Gay Rappers

VH1's new special 'LHH: Out In Hip Hop' explores being out and gay in hip-hop.

VH1's "Love & Hip Hop" franchise has served up plenty of drama over the past five years, giving viewers a peek at the off-stage love lives of rappers like Jim Jones, Peter Gunz, Joe Budden, Saigon and the men and women they share their closets with. Make-ups, breakups, money, power, respect, disrespect, the series has hit all the notes -- except one.

This season on the second edition of "LHH: Hollywood," we were introduced to producer/rapper Milan Christopher and his partner, aspiring rapper Miles Brock, who has spent most of the the time so far trying to keep their relationship under wraps. Why? Because despite attempts by Kanye West and "Empire" to break down one of the last barriers of acceptance in hip-hop, being out and gay in rap is still a risky proposition in 2015.

That might end with tonight's (Oct. 19) episode, in which Milan, 29 (who was already out before the season began, but not to Brock's family) and Miles, 27, aim to break new ground when they officially come out on the show. Though the pair have been together for two years, both are anxious about how their families, and the industry, will react to the news.

The ep will be followed by a roundtable discussion, "LHH: Out in Hip Hop," about homophobia in hip-hop and the lack of acceptance of homosexuality in the black church and mainstream hip-hop.

In this sneak peek above of the special, which airs tonight at 11 p.m ET, host T.J. Holmes of ABC News leads a discussion about what happens when your church doesn't accept you for who you are and why some in the black church have resisted embracing LGBT members for so long.

"I think what the black church has gotten wrong is the idea that homosexuality is a sin," says Rev. Delman Coates of Maryland's Mt. Ennon Baptist Church. "There's this idea that homosexuality is an abomination. That same-gender love and same-gender sex is a sin against God."

Tune in to find out what an openly gay black pastor thinks the church needs to learn about welcoming in its LGBT family and why one pastor is refusing the push to embrace the LGBT community.

Latest News