Are the conditions right for a hot-shot gay rapper to shoot to the top of the charts?

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homophobic musicians gotta be the biggest assholes on the planet, I think, I hope they all die broke

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

What's with the selective indignation regarding hip-hop and "homophobia"? Hip-hop seems light years away from joining the rest of civilization in promoting decent heterosexual relationships, nevermind tolerating ones that most of them don't engage in.

It's this penny-wise, pound-foolish mentality where a rapper can treat women like shit and promote crass materialism and violence but as long as he's down with gays he won't be regarded as a social retard by the media.

For an example, let's say there are two rappers: Rapper A promotes black literacy and history and downplays material wealth and sex in his music. The thing is he's of the Southern Baptist-mold of black religion and has been known to refer to homosexuals as "fags". Rapper B is your standard chauvinist rapper who instructs women to shake their T&A for him and brags about his wealth, his race, his origin, etc. but he is also for championing homosexual acceptance and condemns homophobia in hip-hop. Assuming they are both equally popular and their stances are equally known (relatively) by people in the media, who do you think is more likely to get magazine covers for bringing "intelligence" back into the mainstream of hip-hop? Who do you think is more "enlightened" and by how much?

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

B, by approximately two T's and one A.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

Cunga, you can be a Southern Baptist with negative feelings about homosexuality without referring to gays as "fags." I don't get the validity of either of your constructs.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

That's because there is no validity to any of his constructs.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

what he said.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

fwiw, that N.O.R.E. interview is at least 5 years old, because it says it was after "Oh No" and his first two solo albums, and since then the Neptunes have done tracks on God's Favorite plus his current single "I'm A G". So either he decided Pharrell is not a straight Flagrino or he realized he doesn't have much of a career w/out their beats.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wasn't Eazy-E gay? Or does it make me a horrible person for spreading that around.

It probably makes you a horrible person for supposing that only gay people can die of AIDS.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hey, I didn't suppose that! Everyone else did, though, and I never knew if they were serious or if it was just gossip. Anyway, I will just assume he wasn't because Suge Knight is probably reading this right now.

― musically (musically), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

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