![]() Two actually, this one and one on Fridays called Lo-Fi Fridays. So next time you’re kicking it to Can I Kick It? and reminiscing about the time you reblogged tumblr posts about Tyler being the devil, think on that. Yes, even your favourite ‘sound’ rappers, called “the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s,” by AllMusic, were on the pro-gay tip. This unreleased Tribe song, held back by the record label because of how universally positive it was about gay people, is actually entirely on the subject of homosexuality. So never will I do it – disrespect my mommy You’re filthy and funny to the utmost exponent Brand Nubian – Georgie Porgie (Low End Theory outtake, 1991) Ĭall me homophobic but I know it and you know it Everyone is created equal.Ī Tribe Called Quest feat. He warrants comparison to Dennis Rodman, who is not gay but occasionally cross-dresses. Lil Wayne’s rap ‘n’ bullshit is in a homosexual style, underpinned by the fact that he kissed Birdman on the lips once. Lil Wayne – A Milli (Tha Carter III, 2008) ![]() His level-headed homosexual friend pulls him aside and convinces him to calm down and not fall victim to the trappings of success as so many have before him. In these lines, 50 Cent is celebrating his success, but perhaps to excess. Yo that faggot ass nigga trying to pull me back right?Ī number one song on the Billboard Hot 100, this is another very high profile example of what we are talking about. I’m that cat by the bar toasting to the good life He is “not bisexual” – this perhaps implies that he is an all-or-nothing rapper, never operating in the shades of the spectrum, but always in black and white, concrete ideas that have conventional, understood meaning to a broad sector of society.ĥ0 Cent – In Da Club (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, 2002) –%20In%20Da%20Club.mp3 Nas plays the difference between heterosexual and homosexual relations against each other to show how different he is, and how aggressively versatile. Halftime is the best song on Illmatic, Illmatic is Nas’ best album and Nas is a god-tier rapper (to the extent that when he drops new songs, after more than a decade of doing the opposite of what he did on Illmatic, people still get excited), so this is a very high profile place in the context of hip hop history. Of rap I’m a professional and that’s no question, yo. Versatile, my style switches like a faggot As the title of this post implies, I will be cherrypicking quotes from rap songs and reading them as if the rapper considered homosexuality to immediately imply a bunch of positive connotations. Now, we all know that being gay is neither good nor bad, but many famous rappers from the murky, unknown times before Odd Future invented homophobia tended to, surprisingly, use homosexuality as a jigsaw piece that would pretty much immediately imply a bunch of negative connotations. ![]() June is Pride month and, given that Tyler saying ‘faggot’ got plenty of attention, both on this blog and whilst out talking to real humans, I thought I would do something annoying and facetious to celebrate.
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