Anyone read that interview with Kanye West on MTV? Here's the part that got me to pause BET's Rap City on the TIVO and get to blogging.
"After my parents got divorced and we moved to Chicago when I was 3, I would go see my father on Christmas, spring break and summer. My father was my everything, but during the rest of the time, my mother was my everything. Of course there's a good side to that, but the bad side of that is that people call you a mama's boy. It gets to the point that when you go to high school and you wasn't out in the streets like that, and you ain't have no father figure, or you wasn't around your father all the time, who you gonna act like? You gonna act like your mother...And then everybody in high school be like, "Yo, you actin' like a fag. Dog, you gay?" - Kanye West
This sounds something your boy tells you right before he finishes his sentence with, "I'm gay."
I'm not saying Kanye is gay . I'm just saying it sounds like a pre-quel to something more.
PS - I don't have anything against homosexuals. Some of the people who read my blog are gay.
PSS - (More Than A Movement > Late Registration) == Replay Value + 10)
It's impossible. If there was a gay rhymer he would be classified R&B, not Rap/Hip Hop.
A rapper implies many things -- gay is not one of them.
True, I would agree, the next thing outta 'Ye mouth could easily be "I'm gay". The fact of the matter is a great percentage (probably 50% or more) of young black men between the ages of 15-21 grow up with virtually no noteworthy male influence. In order to truly appreciate Kanyes viewpoint of the pain you endure not having the masculine influence you need to be balanced, you would have to truly listen and consider your own situation. Most brothers have been in this situation, whether theyve been "in touch with the streets" or not, they know what this feels like. The difference is, some choose to prove themselves and others choose to be themselves, straight like that.
The brother West is nice behind the boards and articulate on the mic as far as I can hear so I got love for him regardless. If the bull is gay, he the dominant one for sure!
Holla back!
If kanye was gay, and the dominant one, would that make it ok??? I'm just asking bee....
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I know girl who told me her ex-boyfriend use to let other guys suck him off. This was before the whole 'homo-thug' craze. He seriously felt that it did not make him gay.
I think if you a sticking your penis in another mans rectum, you are gay, regardless of if you don't get it done to you.
If you let another dude suck you off that's gay. When you get your stick sucked you're looking in your girls eyes, grabbing the back of her head, feeling on her chest and stuff. You can't do that to another guy.
The only gay rapper I know is Ron Mexico.
We are definatly not ready for a gay rapper. If we were wouldn't caution (or however he spells it) be more popular?
And rapping has nothing to do with sexual orientation, it has to do with the love of the craft.
Of course we aint ready for no gay rapper. People who don't understand rap in the first place already think its a bunch of noise that promotes disrespecting women and violence. The last thing the hip hop community needs to promote is homosexuality
Plus what's the odds of a gay rapper actually making it if 95% of hip hop listeners can't even relate to. And if he do make it the influence on kids will be worse then talking about killing of pimpin. That gay rapper will have these little boys running around thinking it's alright to touch on each others dingaling. One thing though, I wouldn't mind a lesbian rapper, just not a gay rapper it's a difference
That is wild. Just because you grow up with you moms does not make you gay, the only thing it definetly does is make you appreciate a womans strength more and make you less likely to leave you wife and kids if you pick up on the lessons that are being taught to you. To be real the only who could possibly view that as gay is dudes that are too "hard" to cry or even smile for that matter.
I think it depends of what kind of rap, it`s about? i mean im pretty sure there wÃll never be a gay gangster rapper, but sure i think there`s gay rappers that`s just spittin rhymes no doubt...
aint nobody wants to hear no gay rapper. hiphop listeners cannot relate to that. im not gonna sit here and lie. i cant stand faggets, theres no reason to be gay, theres so many beautiful women around the world. shoooot. i love da brat tho and any female who gets down like here. invite me baby.
Why would a gay rapper have to rap about having sex with other men? I mean why is the world so afraid of "gay" people. Many of you on here who think you're hard or pimps probably have boys you chill with that are "dl" like so many bruhs want to call themselves. And if you found out would you stop rolling with your boy? But there is so much more to a person than their sexuality. I would hate to see the hip hop world miss out on a great talent just because he's ashamed of who he is because his own people will hate him or not support him for what he does in bed. And why do people think lesbianism is ok? If you don't like homosexuality say that don't contradict yourself saying "but ok a lesbian rapper would be cool". C'mon people lets think before we speak. Hey great site!
Gay rapper or lesbian rapper, there still GAY.. I wouldn't care 2 hear from neither...
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I totally agree with midwestbrutha. There are so many gay men around right now that you and I don't even realize are gay, including some of our favorite rappers. I think if we were to stop shunning the whole black homosexuality thing in our community, then brothas wouldn't have to feel like they need to be on the DL. Shit should be out in the open. If rap and everything based around hip-hop is about "keeping it real" then keep that shit real, if your a man that likes dudes, then say so. And if you are really that nice on the mic, (as long as you are not getting into details about your sexual exploits) then people will feel u. If not in the open, at least there will be a whole lot of DL brothas copping ya album on the low, not to mention the openly gay dudes who have been waiting for someone to talk to them. Now that I think about it, that shit might actually be a good market to capitalize on!
Gay rapper or lesbian rapper, there still GAY.. I wouldn't care 2 hear from neither...
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naw we aint ready 4 no gay rapper. People dont accept gay people as it is, so who would want 2 listen 2 one? i for one do not care about what no gay dude has to say. just think what his videos would look like(ewwwwwwwww!)
just because he picked up certain traits from living with his mother doesn't mean he's gay...thats some ignorant shit
Yeah i think we ready for a gay rapper shit we already have one bow wow bitch ass.lol.
Yea no Karamo..
Kanye isn't gay he's just in tuned to his feminine side because of growing up with his moms. I think that should be celebrated not hated on, cuz soooo many cats out there try so hard to act hard and disrespectful towards woman and homosexuals.
He probably iz gay. If he ever publically admits he's gay. He's cut. Blacks arent going to respect him for being gay, I know i wont. Its 2 many black dudes on the DL nowdays anyway, so maybe he'll stay on top maybe he wont.
fuck that its alright to be gay shit!!! I AINT EVEN AGREEING WITH THAT IN NO WAYS......ITS AN ABOMINATION YA NIGGAS TALKING BOUT IF WE WAS MORE OPEN WITH IT PEOPLE WOULDNT HAVE TO BE ON THE DL....!!! THAT DONT ROCK....GOD DID NOT MAKE IT LIKE THAT....NOR DID GOD MAKE ANYONE GAY.....PEOPLE HAVE FREE WILL , NOT EVERYONE DOES THE RIGHT THING OBVIOUSLY.... THINK ABOUT IT...WOULD YA EXCEPT PEOPLE WALKING DOWN THE STREET KISSING DOGS OR FUCKING OTHER ANIMALS ??? NO BECAUSE IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED NASTY AND WRONG BECAUSE MAN AINT MEANT TO BE WITH ANIMAL RIGHT? WELL MAN AINT MEANT TO BE WIT OTHER MEN EITHER... GOD MADE ADAM...HE AINT TAKE THE NIGGA RIB AND MAKE JOHN..... HE MADE EVE! GOD SET IT OFFF THE WAY IT SHOULD BE...!
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I AGREE 100% WITH YA NIGGAS CRAZY...... PEOPLE NEED TO STOP WITH ALL THAT......YA HELPING SEND THIS WORLD STR8 TO HELL!!! IF GOD AINT AGREE TO NEVER END THE WORLD BY FLOOD AGAIN.....WE'D BE SEEING THE ARC LEAVING OUR ASS BEHIND BY NOW
There is already a gay rapper. Chingy!
Look the fact that someone is outwardly gay isn't going to completly destroy his career, if you look at hip hop currently there are plenty of suspected artist. Missy for one is known in the industry for taking part in the other side to sexual orientation, queen latifah is another one. The fact that a percentage of ppl may not identify with a persons sexuality has nothing to do with the talent/gifts of the individual. Kanye being gay would explain a heck of alot of things about him. The make up of hip hop was never meant to be based of region or sexual preferences. The early days of hip hop many legends wore eye shadow and colorful outfits. Heck even the great afrika bambatta has a few pictures of him in a few articles of clothing that borderline gender bending. The fact that no one has come out of the closet publicly in hip hop is not surprising. For all this talk of keeping it real, the typical young hip hop fan is very ignorant to accepting the realities of the general world. There is a larger place than your hood and my hood. Just like the first time I showed a picture to a friend of a white man holding his son in a tupac shirt with his black chevy with vanity plates that said tupac. In kentucky!!! not jersey, not l.a. not detroit but backwoods kentucky. The idea that many of your favorite artist maybe of the opposite sexual orientation is too much to digest. Yet others with a grasp on the overall idea that ppl are different and not always in a bad way can deal with it. Yes there would be backlash from other homophobic artist and corporations, remember hip hop is a machine that's generally run by rich republicans who batter it down publicly but get rich from it in private. The puffy's and jay-z's of the world all work for larger corporations who wouldn't endorse or promote that kind of lifestyle, yet you can be as blood or crip as you like. You can bang on cops and innocent ppl all you want. You can even make self degrading statements and affect your communities with this promotion of branded crap that averages a fifth of their monthly rent per article of clothes. I endorse underground where you can be whoever and whatever you want, backpack hip hop where ethnicity and sexuality take a backseat to every important aspect of the craft. My money is on the source and xxl trying to make a killing selling millions of copies of their lopsided views and takes on the genre, the topic, and the it's bullshit red alert regarding the corporate politics of the game.
Mqn gay people got money and are not afraid to spend it. if there was a gay rapper he would sell more than most just from getting gay support.
Yo I agree with my nigga, "Ya Niggas Is Crazy". This whole gay shit be it females gettin' down with females or males gettin down with each other is an abomination to not only God but to all of mankind weither you a rhyme spitter or the muthafucka changing the fry oil at Church's Chicken. And here lately this shit has gotten completely outta control with the legalization of these gay marriages... "WHAT THE FUCK!!!That's why it's so many of these fucked up diseases out there cuz' people ait following the laws of GOD and what he ordained: man w/ woman not the same sex w/ each other. That's why society is so messed up now. And hell nah, I damn for sure aint ready neither do I want to hear about some faggot cocksucking rapper or some cunt licking muff diving female rapper. Yall can keep that shit might get an STD in my ear or something. And for all you homothug rappers that like sucking niggas off, try sucking on this 4 nick glock and swallowing...
yo nig, you betta read dat bible again cuz it says all sins be the same in god's eyes son. So lying, stealing, murdering, lusting, and homosexuality all be the same. We all sinners and need jesus....
Kudos for Kanye for speaking with intelligence and enlightenment. In contrast, some people on this thread have responded with some of the most vile ignorance and bigotry about homosexuality. If only you knew how backwards and uneducated you sound with your myths and stereotypes about homosexuality. A gay or bisexual record could be successful, especially if he is marketed to well-educated and more progressive minded groups. Many people are tired of the shameful prejudice that some people still have against gays and bisexuals and would embrace an openly gay rapper financially. Certainly the media would embrace him or her.
Moreover, almost all scientists agree today that sexual orientation is an innately determined component of one's biological makeup. So, some of you sound rather uneducated on the subject matter with your primitive notions that sexual orientation is chosen or determined by being a single parent. Part of hip hop and rap's bad image in the mainstream world is that it entrenches people in ignorant homophobia, misogyny, and hatred, instead of bringing people together and advocating social injustice. I am hoping Kanye's efforts to elevate hip hop from the gutter succeeds.
some of you sound so ignorant.
You all gotta learn to live and let live. Loosen up and stop quoting the bible ya fools. All this homo bashing makes you sound like a bunch of retards.
Shut the fuck up Derek before yo gay ass gets blasted
Eat my shit problem child.
I don't know why everyone has their panties in a bunch. There is already a gay rapper, his name is Jay-Z, you probably got one of his records already. And I don't mean gay as in gay, I mean gay as in he has got his cock so far up kanye's ass that ye's gonna be sore for weeks. you people don't know cause you got your heads too far up your own asses to realize.
GAY BLACK PRIDE Y'ALL!
Wow, so this is what happens when you let ignorant people on the internet...
Of course the world ain't ready for a gay rapper. Just look at some of the idiotic responses this blog's gotten. Are some of you dudes not comfortable with your sexuality? Do gay people threaten you that much?
What's sad is that you don't hear about this problem when it involves white entertainers. They approve of it or don't but they still accept them and move on. There have been a lot of successful gay white people but black people that's another story. Black people can't support each other for shit we always gotta judge. We always gotta tear each other down. Ya'll are some damn haters and Kanye was speakin the truth. We can't continue to hate our own, white people support their own no matter what. There are a lot of people who are gay that are not trying to fuck you, they just want to make music. All hip hop isn't so masochistic and when it isn't, that usually is the best music. I mean damn when did hip hop become a dick waving contest. All ya'll are homophobic but probably got family members and friends that you love that's you just don't know is gay. If a rapper's product is good why wouldn't you support it....cuz of who they fucking? Oh yeah, I forgot, we supposed to be segregated within our own culture so we can't progress as a people and ya'll are playing right into that shit. GROW UP
Those of u trying 2 quote the Bible r cracking me up. R u familar with the concept of "Judge not lest ye be judged."? In all actuality in GOD's eyes sin is sin. Theft is equal 2 adultry, Homosexuality is equal 2 murder and so on.
Speaking of murder, it's amazing that none of u bat an eye when it comes 2 killing on wax, or in real life 4 that matter. (Thou shall not kill.) Sin in general seems 2 be ok with u EXCEPT homosexuality!
Dont get it twisted, I'm str8, married and have 3 beautiful kids but I have gay friends and relatives. Why am I cool with them? Because judging them because off of 1 thing about them is no different than white people judging the color of my skin. I dont care what they do behind close doors I just dont want 2 hear about it.
The bottom line is this, when we die GOD will decide our fate based on our sins. Question is how will u be judged?
How the fuck can we relate to a gay rapper?Oh yeah fuck u derek
Why has everyone gotta hate on Gay People?? Hip-Hop is about being real and coming from the heart, spitting about ur experiences and life, not fake gangsta bullshit! It don't matter if you're gay, straight or bi, as long as ur real!
As for the religious peeps, damn ur funny! the bible says 'don't judge' and then u judge everyone - if u believe in that shit then ur all fucked! Also, i bet them peeps saying they hate that 'homo shit' are the first to suck their homeboys cock up in the pen!
I don't think he's gay or nothing. I didn't see anything in his comments that would even imply such. This is just something for the ignorant small minded folks to talk about. He was just talking about how a lack of a male influence in the home can impact a brother. Some of those without a male influenece CHOOSE to be gay because they give in to the female influeneces. The mothers of those gay cats probably didn't teach them any better. These mothers need to let their male children know that they shouldn not ever even think about trying to be that way because it just ain't cool at all. Point Blank. I don't hate those folks but at the same time I could NEVER EVER relate to no Liberace type dude!
There's probably more gay rappers than we know.All I know is Joe Budden is one of them.My peoples seen him and his male friend in the club lip locked up in the corner.At first we didnt think it was him,but he sat at the designated table for him with his name on it.To me If they are gay,so what.It doesnt affect me as a person and doesnt affect there music.so i dont care.
WHAT MOST PEOPLE DONT REALIZE IS THAT THEYRE PROBABLY HELLA NFL NBA AND OTHER PRO ATHELETES THAT ARE GAY A GAY RAPPER IS NOT THAT FAR FETCHED IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT ALOT O THESE CATS YOU CAN SEE THEY ALL HAVE MANY FEAMALE TENDENCYS AND QUESTIONABLE RELATIONSHIP HISTORY LOOK AT JAY-Z IM A HOV FAN LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE BUT HOW MANY LATE THIRTY EARLY FORTY YEAR OLD BLACK GUYS WITH HELLA MONEY AINT GOT NO KIDS THE NIGGA HAD NEVER BEEN LINKED TO A WOMAN ROMANTICKLY TILL BEYONCE AND THEY RELATIOINSHIP LOOK HELLA FAKE TO ME CHICKS IS FOUL IF J WAS HITTIN CHICKS LIKE HE CLAIM SOME CHICKEN HEAD WOULD HAVE TRAPPED HIM BY NOW AND LOOK AT "DIDDYS" FEMININE ASS THAT MOTHERFUCKER GET MORE GIRLED UP THAN MOST PEOPLES BITCHES ALL IM SAYIN IS WITH THAT DL SHIT LURKIN YA NEVA KNOW
You know why you hate homos? Cause you're a bunch of chickenshits. You have no courage to face the truth about human beings and you have to use stupid bible quotes to make your point. Jesus defended the persecuted and oppressed. That's genuine courage. He became the power for those who had none.
You want to meet some people with real courage then talk to Coretta Scott King, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. These folks got more guts than you fools will ever know in your whole lives. And they all say that discrimiation against homos has to stop. Kanye West is in good company.
i am gay, fuck y'all
If it was ok to be gay then why is it not excepted in congress. They want to make gay marriages legal but as soon as their own people step out the closet they also have to resign. Being gay is a sin and it is in the bible Romans 1:18-27. I will not quote the scriptures I will hope that some of you really read it and get your own understanding.
ALL YOU FUDGE PACKERS AND ANY SUPPORTERS ARE ALL GOING TO HELL. NEW COMMANDEMENT
"THOU SHALL NOT BE A HOMO" ,
I HOPE ALL YOU FLAMBOYANT HOMOS HAVE BREATHABLE PINK BODY SUITS ON....CAUSE ITS HOT IN HELL!
There is a gay rapper in New Orleans that goes by the name Ready Red. He is pretty popular and has a number of catchy dance toons.
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I dont support the gay shit, I just dont think that that shit is right. I even lost a job for craking one of those fruity bastards across the head with a chair. The faggot got out of line. Since then, I've went through so much bullshit behind this queer. I got a criminal record, I had to go through anger management, and I've lost job opportunities for some real bread on this cock sucker. What I've learned is Man leave them faggots alone.....They are like cock-roaches. They just wont fucking die. I live in a city where they are open and flamboyant. I have adopted that DO YOU PHILOSOPHY....Dont fuck with me and I fo sho wont fuck with you. ON another note I will straight up fuck up any one of my homies up who reveal that they have been on that DL shit. I dont smoke with everyone but I smoke with my niggas. I will beat his ass if I find out that I been second hand dick sucking. Them downlow niggas is fucking up the world yall. If you gay then be gay........leave the females to a nigga thats gon' FUCK em Till THEY CUM.......
The bible encourages slavery. White Christian Americans used the bible as an excuse to own Africans for more than two centuries. If you believe in the bible then you have to agree with slavery. There's no way around that.
The bible says you can sell your children and you should kill your neighbors if they don't observe the Sabbath. Should we also stone people for eating shellfish or wearing cloth of mixed fibers? Shall we burn women alive for being witches? Shall we put people on the rack and torture them to death? What manner of horrors hasn't the bible been used to justify?
The bible is full of this kind of evil shit. So are the Torah and the Qur'an. If we followed all the religious quotes we'd have to kill everybody in the world. Even the Nazis quoted the bible. Taking religious quotes literally is a dangerous thing. Just look at what people like bin Laden are doing. They're killing people in the name of Allah. WTF is that all about?
Some priests say that AIDS is God's punishment on gays. If that's true then why are most of the people with AIDS heterosexual Africans? How does that work? You should think about these things before you cherry pick bible quotes and reinterpret them any which way you like. Whoever is teaching you to hate gays is misinformed. Any fool can quote bible verses but very few can understand the word of God.
Jesus Christ himself never said anything against homosexuals. Ever. All this anti-gay shit is coming from other people, not from Jesus. Anyone who uses the bible to put down others is a Christian in name only and not in spirit. That's why I'm so proud of Nelson Mandela, Coretta King and Bishop Tutu. And you can say what you like but Kanye West has more courage than the lot of you put together.
Like I said, you people gotta learn to live and let live. The same Bible that was used to justify slavery is used against homosexuals like me to keep us down. It's the same shit but you just can't see it.