Posted on 08/18/2005 10:27:37 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
NEW YORK (AP) - Kanye West says ``gay'' has become an antonym to hip-hop - and that it needs to be stopped.
During an interview for an MTV special, the 27-year-old rapper launched into a discussion about hip-hop and homosexuality while talking about ``Hey Mama,'' a song on his upcoming album, ``Late Registration.''
West says that when he was young, people would call him a ``mama's boy.''
``And what happened was, it made me kind of homophobic, 'cause it's like I would go back and question myself,'' West says on the show, ``All Eyes on Kanye West,'' set to air Thursday night (10:30 p.m. ET).
West says he changed his ways, though, when he learned one of his cousins was gay.
``It was kind of like a turning point when I was like, `Yo, this is my cousin. I love him and I've been discriminating against gays.'''
West says hip-hop was always about ``speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people.'' He adds that in slang, gay is ``the opposite, the exact opposite word of hip-hop.''
Kanye's message: ``Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates. And I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, `Yo, stop it.'''
West, whose debut disc ``The College Dropout'' won a Grammy for best rap album, will see his second record in stores on Aug. 30.
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I thought it said Key West for a minute...
"Yo, stop it."
Didn't Nancy Reagan coin this phrase in the WOD?
``And what happened was, it made me kind of homophobic, 'cause it's like I would go back and question myself,''
So because he is insecure, we can't express our beliefs?
Why is this a news story?
Why is this any kind of story?
It's news to the legions of hip-hop fans on FR.
Never heard of him.
This man sounds like he has the IQ of a teapot.
"Yo, stop it!" How exquisitely insipid.
MTV =the homosexual channel.
I want all MTVs OFF the regular line up. They should be pay extra like any other sex/pornography channel.
By MTV's definitions supporting a DOMA or Federal Marriage Amendment is "bashing."
On a funny side, since I don't know about hip-hop, does this make this interviewee the "gay" rapper?
Hey Kayne, guess what? You're gay.
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Before that he was a producer, most notably for the America-hating, white-hating Alicia Keys. Alicia is, of course, born and raised in America and of mostly white ancestry.
West is best known politically as the performer at Live 8 who claimed from the stage that AIDS is a manmade disease created by the US government with the express purpose of committing genocide against Africans.
West is best known politically as the performer at Live 8 who claimed from the stage that AIDS is a manmade disease created by the US government with the express purpose of committing genocide against Africans.
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I saw that happen live...my wife and I looked at each other and said at the same time, "Did he just say what I think he said?"
What a dip sh*t.
He has a new CD to sell, yo.
It isn't, it's from AP.
You should get the numbers on the amount of people that believe that about AIDs and SARS. It is amazing.
What's amazing to me is the apparent impunity these fools have...I mean, where is MTV and other media outfits? Shouldn't they be pointing out how insane this is? I would understand that if the belief wasn't "widely held" there would be no reason for the media to debunk it...but come on!!!
Just once I'd like to see MTV do a story on the lunacy of Kanye and other rappers/"artists" and their f*cked up beliefs. I mean, MTV has a 60 second commercial spot called 'THINK,' where a leftist political viewpoint is highlighted and then the word "Think" is plastered across the tv screen...Ironic, no?
Isn't it odd how traditional democrat groups DESPISE each other?
He should focus on Jamaican music.
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