Recently Pimp C of UGK fame gave an interview in which he lambasted both current and former hip-hop icons for purportedly being gay. A couple of choice quotes from the interview are as follows:
On Ne-Yo:
"I ain't out here dressing up trying to be sexy licking my lips like old gay ass Ne-Yo. "Licking lips and s**t, n**ga. P**sy d**k in the booty ass n**ga wearing all that gotdamn lip gloss at their video shoots and letting n**gas put makeup on their face. Yeah, I said Ne-Yo, you heard what the f**k I said. N**gas putting all that lip gloss on they f**kin' lips looking like they've just been eating a pork chop sandwich with no hands."
On Russel Simmons:
“I just made peace with the lil n***a Short Dawg cause on the cool, it really wasn’t his fault. It was ol’ d**k-in-the-booty-Russell Simmons fault for not taking the message back to him and telling him to change his name. Yeah, I said ‘d**k-in-the-booty.’ I know what I’m talking about. B***h, I’ll air you out too.”
--Courtesy Concrete Loop
Click here for the follow-up interview
http://rope.whta-fm.fimc.net/pimpc_interview.mp3
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--Courtesy Hot 107
At one time in my life I probably would have agreed with him. Hell, the pejorative term for male homosexuals was thrown around pretty liberally on The Declaration of Independence (not the real document--my mix CD). In my opinion, this attitude is one of the more negative, unchallenged pillars of hip-hop machismo and it embarrasses me that as a culture "homo" is and always has been a synonym for weak.
Coming from an early twenties, testosterone filled, narrow-minded kid I could overlook them taking such a stance. Not so much from one of the rap games grizzled veterans. Pimp C should have met enough people by now that he would know better than to make such broad and baseless generalizations about a person's authenticity and/or toughness based on their sexual orientation. Gays, much like ethnic minorities in this country and abroad are persecuted, discriminated against, and even lynched for how they were born. I find it unfathomable that Pimp C would take the position that a person should come forward and "keep it real" when he would probably be the first person to deride them for their honesty.
Get a grip Pimp C. I like your music because I do not necessarily have to agree with everything someone is saying in a song to enjoy it. I also do not feel like a person has to expose themselves to undo harm to their career just because you feel they should be more authentic. It's not your place to judge and it certainly is not mine. Any secrets they keep are between them and their God.
And since I mentioned it, please spare me the religious argument as well because if memory serves that same argument was used to justify the idea that minorities are inferior; not worthy of "mixing genes" with the majority. If you ask me, the real deviants are the sanctimonious assholes that hide behind the church like its position should never be questioned in order to withhold membership to a humanity that is the birthright of all, regardless of race, creed, color, or sexual orientation. The Bible was written by men, church is led by men, and last I checked no man is infallible. It is in the questioning of the precepts that they are tested and those that are least able to stand the test should be reconsidered.
To do otherwise would be stupid, but as the title says...well, you know the rest.
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