Good for him!
I get sick of the usage of the word "gay" to mean "something I don't like", which is implicitly a form of homophobic language usage. It's nice to hear someone admit that the connection is intended and explicit.
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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).
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I find this interesting. It points out the false perception that gay=effeminate male, and tough guy=straight.
I also found the "breaking down barriers" comment interesting, as that doesn't jibe with my admittedly limited perception of rap, which often seems to me to be about erecting barriers between street culture and the police, the middle class, white culture, etc.
Perhaps my perception has been flawed.
I'm not, however, going to wade through all of the foul language, relatively uninteresting music sampling, misogyny, and difficult to understand lyrics to correct it. Perhaps it is the poetry of the streets, but there are just too many barriers for me to be able to access it.
Gilda