{"id":5353,"date":"2026-03-19T19:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/solanges-son-julez-smith-responds-to-online-speculation-about-his-sexuality\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:46:46","slug":"solanges-son-julez-smith-responds-to-online-speculation-about-his-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/solanges-son-julez-smith-responds-to-online-speculation-about-his-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Solange\u2019s Son Julez Smith Responds to Online Speculation About His Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Julez Smith, the son of singer\u00a0Solange Knowles, is speaking out after becoming the subject of online speculation regarding his sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Julez took a moment to address the situation directly, making it clear that he\u2019s unbothered by the chatter and focused on living life on his own terms.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\">While on a recent livestream Smith was asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s the hardest part about being you?\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\">\u201cMisconceptions,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n<p>Jules goes on to say his been \u201ccriticized\u201d since the start of his life. \u201cLook \u2014 the first time I ever heard of myself in the media was I was in seventh grade, and my mom posted this picture of me,\u201d Julez said. \u201cI was dressed as\u00a0LL Cool J. I had like this red jumpsuit, I was 13 at the time. Mind you, I had a girlfriend at the time. I went to school and my girlfriend showed me a picture that my mom posted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is grown-a*s adults who was calling me gay at what, 13?\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julez Smith, the son of singer\u00a0Solange Knowles, is speaking out after becoming the subject of online speculation regarding his sexuality.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}