Kanye West Calls for End to Gay Bashing

[SpursFanDan]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050818/ap_en_mu/people_kanye_west

NEW YORK - Kanye West says "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 song on his upcoming album, "Late Registration."

West says that when he was young, people would call him a "mama's boy."

"And what happened was, it made me kind of homophobic, 'cause it's like I would go back and question myself," West says on the show, "All Eyes on Kanye West," set to air Thursday night (10:30 p.m. ET).

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.'"

West, whose debut disc "The College Dropout" won a Grammy for best rap album, will see his second record in stores on Aug. 30.

[T Park]

but America just discriminates

Some do, but not "America"

Get off the high horse Kanye...

[The sone]

its a great thing, what hes trying to do, but i can already hear all the other idiot rappers calling him gay for not saying gay. most rappers are ignorant tho.

[SpursFanDan]

True, what does he expect? Every other rapper to follow in his footstep, if anything its gonna make it worse.

[sa_butta]

But it is ok for him to use other words in his raps...ie "niggas".

[batman2883]

whose the bestest, Kanye West is........I use to front when i write songs, talking about having ice on and i can barely keep my lights on and my beats where so sick i should have got a medic but my credit was so pathetic i couldnt afford a debit, when the dropout dropped i had to cop me money tree to front on anybody whoever tried to front on me, i got so much personality what do you want from me, i can be by myself and enjoy the company, my life is cheer my career is the lord...

[batman2883]

But it is ok for him to use other words in his raps...ie "niggas".


There is a huge difference between the terms "######" and "niggas" huge difference

[T Park]

"######" and "niggas" huge difference

its the same word chode.

There is no freakin difference.....

[Kip Fanatic]

This is freakin' dumb. He doesn't want anyone bashing gays, but can have women in his videos like 3/4 naked. Is that bashing women? Would he want his mom in Snoop's next video getting down?

[Dre_7]

######: n : (ethnic slur)

1. a. Used as a disparaging term for a Black person: “You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls ######” (James Baldwin).

b. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.

2. offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn: nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra]

[batman2883]

its the same word chode.

There is no freakin difference.....


There is a huge difference huge...your just too ignorant to know it

[batman2883]

This is freakin' dumb. He doesn't want anyone bashing gays, but can have women in his videos like 3/4 naked. Is that bashing women? Would he want his mom in Snoop's next video getting down?


Hey if they have the body and choose to be in the video then they are bashing themselves you can't put the blame on Kanye West for that

[sa_butta]

Hey if they have the body and choose to be in the video then they are bashing themselves you can't put the blame on Kanye West for thatBut it is his video and chooses who or what is in it.

[Kip Fanatic]

His latest song "Gold Digga" is not bashing women? He doesn't even have to have a video. The title itself bashes.

[atlfan25]

His latest song "Gold Digga" is not bashing women? He doesn't even have to have a video. The title itself bashes.
if it is true, nothing wrong with it

[batman2883]

exactly i just think people are hating since he has all the fly women dancing half naked around him.....man just stop drinking haterade

[Kori Ellis]

There's nothing wrong in the Gold Digger Lyrics. It doesn't bash women any way, it doesn't say the word "bitch" or anything.

[batman2883]

All he says is hey if im rich and a girl is on me im not calling her a gold digger im just saying she's not with a broke nigga???nothing wrong with that at all

[Samr]

Kanye is gay.

[Mixability]

Completely right. I would never call any of my black friends ######. Fuck no, that is disrespect. Sometimes I say "What up nigga?" or "What up Niuh?". That is not offensive.

Unless you're part black, it shouldn't ever leave your lips, kinda like how your cock never leaves tx3rdcoastborn's lips. :lol

[The sone]

There is a huge difference huge...your just too ignorant to know it


those who live in glass houses...

[ObiwanGinobili]

Kanye is gay.


i was waiting for that. :rolleyes

[KEDA]

And Kanye is fuckin incredibly gifted.


Mark it down


Put it on a post it


tape it to your computer monitor


I absolutley agree with what GIG said!


Never has this happened EVER!!!!


Call channel 5 for this!

[batman2883]

Kanye is incredible talented man the man has got classics to his beats man

[sa_butta]

Kanye is incredible talented man the man has got classics to his beats manI got to admit I like his style, when he came out with that Through the Wire joint, that was hot.

[batman2883]

Shit Gold Digga is hot too, man he used Ray Charles lyrics for his backround and the beat is hot

[sa_butta]

I will have to hear it, let me check it out.

[batman2883]

Go to launch

[sa_butta]

Im already on it watching the video, Ive heard it but just did not know what it was called that is hot.

[Kip Fanatic]

I'm not doubting that he isn't good at what he does. Just saying he has no room to say people shouldn't bash people who are gay when he does bashing himself. Tell me this ain't bashing. Be honest. Would you like some guy telling your sister or mother this?

"The New Workout Plan"

[Intro]
You just popped in the Kanye West
Get right for the summer workout tape
And ladies if you follow these instructions exactly
you might bear to pull you a rapper, a NBA player
Man, at least a dude wit' a car
So first of all we gon' work on the stomach
Nobody wants a little tight ass!

[Verse 1]
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and get them sit ups right and
Tuck your tummy tight and do your crunches like this
Give head, stop breathe, get up, check your weave
Don't drop the blunt and disrespect the weed
Pick up your son and don't disrespect your seed
It's a party tonight and ooh she's so excited
Tell me who's invited: you, your friends and my dick
What's scary to me is Henny makes girls look like Halle Berry to me
So excuse me miss, I forgot your name
Thank you, God bless you, good night I came..
I came...
I came..

[Chorus]
It's been a week without me
and she feel weak without me
She wanna talk it out but
Ain't nothin' to talk about
'Lest, she talkin' about freakin' out
then maybe we can work it out
Work it out (Come on) [4x]
Work it out now
Maybe we can work it out (Come on, come on)

[Verse 2]
Oh girl your silhouette make me wanna light a cigarette
My name Kanye from the Jigga set Twista said get it wet
Ooh girl your breath is HARSH
Cover your mouth up like you got SARS
Off them tracks yea I bought them cars
Still killa a nigga on 16 bars
We ain't sweatin' to the oldies we jukin to a cold beat
Maybe one day girl we can bone
so you can brag to all your homies now
But I still mess with a big girl if you ain't fit girl I'll hit girl
1 and you brought 2 friends OK 3 more now hop in the Benz
Four door do you know the difference between a 5, 6, 7, 8
All the mocha lattes you gotta do Pilates
You gotta pop this tape in before you start back dating
Hustlers, gangstas, all us, ballas

[batman2883]

New album drops on the 30th

[KEDA]

actually its Jamie Foxx doing his Ray Charles voice!

[batman2883]

Yeah i know that makes it even hotter, that song is hot fire man like Dylan would spit

[Mixability]

Saying the word "nigga" in from of a black person your age is no big deal. I would never do it to a guy way older than me cuz they feel differently about it than a teen does today.

No big deal? I have a few friends that would disagree. They're fine with me repeating lyrics that contain the word, but I'm not rude or insensitive enough to use it to describe them. There's just too much history with that word. I'm glad that african americans turned it around from being such a negative word to a not-so negative one.

When you say the word in front of your friends, I'm sure your friends just blow it off probably because it's hilarious and more so since you're such a "wigga" anyway. Peace out, B-Rad!

[batman2883]

Well i call all my black friends Nigga, Nicca, or nihu too and they are like yeah whats up my neezy right back even my older black friends...but i guess its cause im part Puerto Rican who knows

[Mixability]

Well i call all my black friends Nigga, Nicca, or nihu too and they are like yeah whats up my neezy right back even my older black friends...but i guess its cause im part Puerto Rican who knows

but do they know you're part Puerto Rican? thats cool if they're ok with it, but I'm just saying I wouldn't do it myself, since I just think its disrepectful.

[batman2883]

Well to each his own, and not all of them know, its just how i carry myself though i guess, its all part of the verbage i use when i speak......i am from the East Side of town.

[Mixability]

Well to each his own, and not all of them know, its just how i carry myself though i guess, its all part of the verbage i use when i speak......i am from the East Side of town.

verbage you use? do they speak their own language on the East Side? :lol

[batman2883]

man its a whole nother world man language style

[Mixability]

yeah whats up my neezy

isn't that "fo sheezy, my neezy" crap retired by now?

[batman2883]

im not saying fo sheezy, but people still say whats up my neezy

[Mixability]

im not saying fo sheezy, but people still say whats up my neezy

bad enough, but oh well, to eacheezy his owneezy! :drunk

[batman2883]

ha ha ha ha

[Duff McCartney]

Damn I was watching that Kanye West thing...I like his music and stuff but god damn...the guy is a straight up douche bag.

Like he gets upset when magazines don't give his album a perfect score. What the fuck man? What a god damn little bitch.

[Mixability]

Damn I was watching that Kanye West thing...I like his music and stuff but god damn...the guy is a straight up douche bag.

Like he gets upset when magazines don't give his album a perfect score. What the fuck man? What a god damn little bitch.

It deserved a perfect score, I'd be upset too.

[Duff McCartney]

No it doesn't...different strokes for different folks. Not everybody is gonna think his album is perfect. Just like not everybody thinks Sgt Pepper is the greatest album ever. Hell I'm a Beatles fan and I don't think it's the greatest album ever.

[j-6]

Is this the guy who thinks the US government created AIDS and mass-produced crack to kill off black people?

[Spam]

Gay bashing is ludicrous.

[SpursFanDan]

I think this is the guy that started the one sided collar flip up.

[IcemanCometh]

shut the fuck up tpark

[T Park]

Make me.