Kanye West Calls for End to Gay Bashing

[SpursFanDan]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050818/...ple_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 sexuality 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 phobic, '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 " s".

[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 " s".

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

[T Park]

"######" and " s" 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 " [syn: , 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 that

But 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 le itself bashes.

[atlfan25]

His latest song "Gold Digga" is not bashing women? He doesn't even have to have a video. The le 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 " " 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 ???nothing wrong with that at all

[Samr]

Kanye is gay.

[Mixability]

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

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

[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.

[KEDA]

And Kanye is in 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 man

I got to admit I like his style, when he came out with that Through the Wire joint, that was hot.