He's right, but what hes doing is assuming that homosexuals are inherently feminine, which isn't true.

Snoop Lion made ATRL queens mad.

He's right imo.

He's 100% correct. It's harsh yes but that's how the Hip-hop culture is.

I find it so funny when rappers are homophobic but rap and brag about fashion and brand names.

Anyway Snoops football analogy wasn't phrased perfectly but he supports the gays.

ah, I see as a person from his race, I can see why he thinks that though - even though society labels gays as feminine, in the black community, we're raised to think gays are all hyper-active drag-queens it's a shame, but it's true. Any indication of femininity(a male listening to female artists; taking interests in clothing, etc.) is automatically seen as a defect

"It's like a football team. You can't be in a locker room full of motherf----g tough-ass dudes, then all of a sudden say, 'Hey, man, I like you.''

"I don't have a problem with gay people. I got some gay homies."

Snoop

That's like saying that our faves collaborating with homophobic rap artists makes our faves homophobic too. Not to mention in 2/3 songs he's talking about how sexy and hot the girls he's collabing with are.

The golden age of hip hop is long gone. There is a thing called conscious rap (Tribe Called Quest, The Fugees, The Roots, KRS-One, Common, etc.) but unfortunately, those rappers don't get as much shine in the mainstream. It's the gangster rappers and the ones who promote ignorance that become successful. For example, Kanye started out very promising as a conscious rapper on his first 2 albums (on Jesus Walks he raps "So if I talk about God, my record won't get played'' and on All Falls Down he raps "The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings'') but now he's a totally different person.

This thread has me thinking though: are there any big name rappers that are openly homophobic? I can't think of any at the moment.

Big difference between generalizing what you consider openly gay folk and closeted. In truth there are many successful rappers who are gay that we just don't know about. It's just NOT possible there are no gay rappers already. So people acting like it'll NEVER happen are wrong on that front. It's LOGICAL though to say it will likely be a long time before there's an OPEN accepted gay rapper in mainstream music... which I agree with him on that point? But he didn't really word it like that...

Not offended though Snoop I think his MAIN point is truthful. Just a bit insensitively worded. And of course I believe a female can rap

Seriously every time a topic like this is brought up blacks always get dragged as if they are the only homophobic group out there. And yet want to complain about not having as many allies at the same time.

You guys are so damn defensive its crazy you only see one way in being supportive and that's waving the rainbow flag. this is why we can't have nice things, too busy wanting support in the way we deem fit instead of being grateful for any kind of support we're given.

Snoop told no lies, rap was and have always have been a masculine genre it was hard as hell for women to be taken seriously and before we bring up salt and pepper they were more along the lines of being feminine with their sexual hit Push it which the guys loved.

MC Lyte had to dress like a guy in order to be taken seriously at the start of her career it wasn't until Lil Kim came along that the dynamic started to change with the feminine look but hardcore flows.

Then other female rappers followed suit even though they never wrote any of their songs and their male counterparts wrote for them it was still a good breakthrough.
Even with that progress it is still very much a mans world and it will be some time for gays to be accepted in rap music.

gay rappers /=/ female rappers serving eye candy for the straight male audience.
Females are in the rap game for reasons other than you think.

Or they are closed themselves. But yeah especially the up and coming rappers like ASAP and Kendrick have more open perceptions. The audiences stay homophobic although I think as rap expands to different areas, things will change. The internet and whatnot has made the genre (as well as others) more widespread so even though the core urban fanbase stays the most influential, there are others with more eclectic taste willing to support "alternative" rappers.

He's being overdramatic. Sure, there aren't going to be any openly gay rappers going mainstream anytime soon, but eventually if one good enough comes along, they'll happen.

The gay community is much more heterogeneous than what you see here on ATRL.

I don't see anything offensive in his comments. Although I do believe that, one day, there will be a huge mainstream gay rapper. And Frank Ocean did help because he still gets played on R&B/Hip-Hop radio. The straights got into Channel ORANGE.