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A 2005 MTV interview in which Kanye West challenges homophobia within the hip hop community has resurfaced. Check it out below.
“If you see something and you don’t want to be that because there’s such a negative connotation toward it, you try to separate yourself from it so much,” said Kanye over a decade ago, in an interview which is currently trending on Reddit. “It made me homophobic by the time I was through high school.”
He continued, “Anybody that was gay I was like, ’Yo, get away from me.’ It’s like I was racing to try to find that constant masculine role model right there, right in front of me. I would use the word ’fag’ and always look down upon gays.”
After explaining that a turning point came when he discovered his cousin is gay, West concluded, “Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of ’hip-hop,’ I think, is ’gay.’ You play a record and if it’s wack, ’That’s gay, dog!’ And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, ’Yo, stop it fam.’”
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