power_wisdom;c-9740159 said:
Sion;c-9739998 said:
I'm sorry but I can't agree with the bullshit that "if a person is gay/homosexual" they will get further. This defeatist attitude needs to stop. Gay people have to work much harder to be successful and accepted period. If the shit he's saying is true then aaaalll the top entertainers should be "gay". Because of how hard it is, the LGBT community tends to try it's best to support its own if it can, I will say that. But FOH that you will make it further just off the strength of being gay.
I believe that if you don't discriminate in your music and make it open to a wider range of people you will attract more positive energy and a larger fanbase and thus open more doors as opposed to just rapping for the streets or boxing yourself in. The Queen Latifah shit is straight bullshit as if to say niggas forgot she's a terrific business woman PERIOD, she was HUGE in the 90s had her own sitcom (bet y'all forgot that), was producing music and movies behind the scenes before anyone even knew and played her cards right. For every successful gay person you point out I can point out 10 that weren't.
I think Mysonne got a point. You can't tell me that homosexual have it harder than black and Latino people. Maybe black and Latino gays. But not white and others. We getting murder by our own and the cops. Homosexuality is a lifestyle. Shit is almost trendy. I have no problem with it. Do you if you're gay. Just don't beat me in the head with it. All these super feminine rappers get more support from the industry than the ones with skills. On Facebook when they was making gay marriage legal you had everyone with rainbows as their profile picture. When niggas were getting killed by cops left and right you had white people on Facebook acting like shit was justifiable. You have plenty of gay in power in the music and fashion industry. Let not act like hip-hop hasn't turn less masculine in the last 7 or 8 years. And Latifah put in work no doubt. But so did Lauren and Eve. But they are nowhere close to where Latifah at. Maybe she worked harder or maybe Mysonne has a point....
-_-* Eve is married to a billionaire, if this is about money does she really have to work anymore ? SMMFH. Lauryn Hill went crazy over a man when was the last time she or Eve made a conscious effort to put out music ? SMMFH. What about Sylvia Rhone, Tyra Banks, Wendy Williams, Beyonce's mom, Angie Martinez, Amber Rose, Mona Scott, etc. All of them are hugely successful and they're not gay.and keep the socioeconomic shit out of it. Because shit like that is what spins this shit and gets people saying "gay is the new black" SMMFH stop it because It has nothing to do with gays in Hip-hop. You don't have to be gay to be successful.
People on Facebook are just showing that they support gay rights man gaddamn, it's not that deep.
As for hip-hop becoming less masculine... We have to stop associating masculinity with shooting guns, selling drugs and being a super thug. Keeping it real meant you were being yourself - Kendrick, J.Cole, Drake, Wale, Big Sean, Travis Scott, Kanye, Rae Shremmurd, etc. don't rap about none of that gang shit and they're running rap right now simply being themselves. Where are these gay rappers man cuz iLoveMakkonen came out and he's not going multi platinum or selling out stadiums all up on Ellen or wherever....