Ooh Papi of Playahata.com writes: In a bold and brave move Kanye West has went on the offensive against the anti-homosexual lyrics in rap music.
Kanye West feels “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 new song on his upcoming album, “Late Registration”,which comes out on Aug.30th.
West says that when he was young, people would call him a “mama’s boy.”
"When I was in high school I was called 'fag' a lot because of how I walked and other little things. And what happened was, it made me kind of homophobic, ’cause it’s like I would go back and question myself , my own feelings,” West says on the show, All Eyes on Kanye West, which aired Thursday night.
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.’”
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