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You saw Frank Ocean speak up about his gay lifestyle. You then saw other artists, like the rapper Murs, kissing men in videos. On one hand, announcing that you’re a gay artist gets you on the covers of magazines and possibly helps you sell records. At the same time, it might cause you to lose your “street cred” faster than you can say, “But President Obama said it’s ok.” What’s the future of homophobia in hip hop and how is it going to play out?
Remember that white people are the ones who are buying most of the albums anyway, and they don’t have nearly as much of a problem with homosexuality as the black community does. At the same time, black artists leverage legitimacy gained from black Americans to sell records to whites. It’s hard to get that legitimacy when you’re gay. But President Obama’s bold announcement in favor of gay marriage made it “cool” to be gay, at least for a while. This is surely the year of the homosexual.
Doc V at Reason4Rhymes.com writes a compelling essay on the topic:
Social expression of one’s sexuality has been on display in American culture since the introduction of the first films and television programs. Even before then, there were forms of literature that presented s****l adult themes like Crime Magazine. However, the social revolutions of the 1960s and 70s brought a radical tilt, which reshaped the traditional images of sexuality being limited to a man and woman who were either married in a family setting, or became as such living happily ever after. Even in the crime-themed material, heterosexual males and females triumphed over their opposite gender in wild stories of l**t and s****l frenzies.
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d-rhyme
July 18, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Derrick. What can I say. You are a blessing.
ALICIA RAE
July 18, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Obama opened the closet and all kinds of sh** came out! a shame! Betcha Eazy E rollin around in his grave over this “soft” rap.
ALICIA RAE
July 18, 2012 at 12:55 pm
All the saggers should read this, but most actually wear a belt to tighted their pants mid-thigh. Initially, I thought it was just a rebellious trend by the youth, but unfortunately it has become a state of mind.
Derrick
July 18, 2012 at 11:19 am
Sagging pants started with the white enslavers, who did not allow Black men to wear belts or ropes around their waste because they feared that they would use these ‘weapons’ to beat, hang or GAG them to death TO ESCAPE FROM BEING ENSLAVED!
The word sagging contains is a code word for gagging, because the belt and the rope were GAGGING weapons, as far as, the white enslaver was concerned because he used them to HANG Black people.
When Black men were stooping over in the hot sun, picking cotton and sugar, while sweating, hungry and sick their pants would start SAGGIN’ down there waist, and they would CONTINUOUSLY have to pull them up, [just like these new age slaves are doing today], and this is how sagging ORIGINALLY became popular; that is, through white enslavers.
It went from the field plantation, to the new plantations, which are prisons and jails, WHERE THE PRISONERS ARE ALSO NOT ALLOWED TO WEAR BELTS, then it went from the prison plantation, to the street plantation; and from there it went to the ENTERTAINMENT hip/slop plantation industry, and guess who’s prospering from this slave mentality…the very people, whose forefather’s INTRODUCED SAGGING…WHITE BUSINESS OWNERS, who are now selling these sagging jeans and draws to these high tech slaves!
THERE WAS A WHITE ENSLAVER, WHO TOLD BLACK MEN THAT THEY WERE NOT GENTLEMEN ENOUGH TO WEAR THEIR PANTS ABOVE THEIR WAIST!
When you see these new age slaves with their pants saggin’ then THEY ARE ADVERTISING THEIR HOMOSEXUALITY.
Peace & Truth