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GAY CULTURE INVADES MAINSTREAM HIP-HOP: SO WHAT?
Posted by DJ Plan.B
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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Hip hop,
Hip-Hop,
homosexuality,
homothug,
metrosexual
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Okay, is it just me or has gay culture all of a sudden become mainstream fashion? I guess it has always been this way but never has it been more obvious than with the current hip-hop fashion culture. Chances are your favorite rapper is wearing a scarf right now that 15 years ago would have merited requests to come out of the closet.
If you want to get to know a person, stop looking at the clothes, the hair, and the walk as these things are simply the outermost shell. Take the time to get to know a person's heart and spirit and personality so that you can truly tell the content of a man's character. It shouldn't only be "okay" to wear scarves now because Jay-Z and Kanye and Young Jeezy wear them.
If everyone is thinking alike then someone isn't thinking
HOMO THUG: When will Hip Hop go str8??
Hip-hop has always tried to portray herself as “keeping it real.” This sentiment can be found in the covert and overt expressions of our art form of choice throughout the years. At its best, our art can challenge the ongoing injustices that our community still endures in America and across the globe. At its worst, it can reveal antiquated attitudes about our own selves. But a known weakness is a strength, and even the Imus controversy and his pointing the finger at hip-hop does make us at least have to take a second look at our attitudes particularly towards women.
But this post is about how the time is fast approaching for hip hop to reconcile its attitudes towards the people that contribute so much to it: ourselves. Whether we are women, men, homosexual or heterosexual, if we share a passion for hip-hop culture, why should some of us be exalted while the rest of us have to be demeaned and degraded when we all spend our hard earned cash to purchase CDs and go to the concerts and basically support the culture?
If you have kept up with recent events like reports of rapper Ma$e allegedly being “caught” cruising a known gay and transsexual hot spot in Atlanta when he crashed his car into a Range Rover in front of him (reports are that he was so embarrassed that he covered his face with a towel and refused to get out of the car and was “towed away” inside of the vehicle) or the video that can be seen online of rapper Lil Cease performing a strip tease for both men and women, you will find evidence of the fact that many different types of people make our culture what it is. The problem is that we only “accept” certain types of attitudes and behavior into the mainstream.
To some, it is far better for Akon to perform sexual acts while clothed with a 14-year old but we are “outraged” when our stars’ personal exploits reveal a side of them that we cannot understand, or are simply afraid of. It is estimated that about ten percent of the population is gay. Obviously, that number does not decrease simply because hip-hop culture does not openly accept gay people. They just go “underground” and try to hide their personal feelings even if it means being fake about who they are. There would be no need for a “DL” culture if our society was willing to be accepting of all kinds of people because there would be no need to hide.
If the recent events that have transpired are any indication, it is only a matter of time before we come across footage of major hip hop stars in the same situations that we currently find Cease and Ma$e in. And when this happens we will be forced to address and reconcile our attitudes toward those we have trouble accepting into what we consider mainstream.
Personally, if Jay-Z was gay, he would STILL be the greatest rapper alive to me.
But this post is about how the time is fast approaching for hip hop to reconcile its attitudes towards the people that contribute so much to it: ourselves. Whether we are women, men, homosexual or heterosexual, if we share a passion for hip-hop culture, why should some of us be exalted while the rest of us have to be demeaned and degraded when we all spend our hard earned cash to purchase CDs and go to the concerts and basically support the culture?
If you have kept up with recent events like reports of rapper Ma$e allegedly being “caught” cruising a known gay and transsexual hot spot in Atlanta when he crashed his car into a Range Rover in front of him (reports are that he was so embarrassed that he covered his face with a towel and refused to get out of the car and was “towed away” inside of the vehicle) or the video that can be seen online of rapper Lil Cease performing a strip tease for both men and women, you will find evidence of the fact that many different types of people make our culture what it is. The problem is that we only “accept” certain types of attitudes and behavior into the mainstream.
To some, it is far better for Akon to perform sexual acts while clothed with a 14-year old but we are “outraged” when our stars’ personal exploits reveal a side of them that we cannot understand, or are simply afraid of. It is estimated that about ten percent of the population is gay. Obviously, that number does not decrease simply because hip-hop culture does not openly accept gay people. They just go “underground” and try to hide their personal feelings even if it means being fake about who they are. There would be no need for a “DL” culture if our society was willing to be accepting of all kinds of people because there would be no need to hide.
If the recent events that have transpired are any indication, it is only a matter of time before we come across footage of major hip hop stars in the same situations that we currently find Cease and Ma$e in. And when this happens we will be forced to address and reconcile our attitudes toward those we have trouble accepting into what we consider mainstream.
Personally, if Jay-Z was gay, he would STILL be the greatest rapper alive to me.
