08/10/2007
Kanye West and Ne-Yo: We're Not Gay!
In a recent issue of Straight magazine (not kidding, though it's a Vancouver-based magazine playing off the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver island and the Pacific coast), R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo decided to tell the world he's straight again:
"In not ever having to deal with anything like this before (gay rumors), I got mad. But then Jay-Z broke it down for me, like, 'This is the music business. You gotta take the bad with the good. If you're doing something right, haters are going to come around, and they're not going to go anywhere. You gotta learn how to let that roll off your back.' Anybody that knows me, knows I'm not gay. If you wanna know, I've been an open book since day one. All you've got to do is ask, and I'll tell you: I love women."
Ne-Yo wrote Beyoncé's hit "Irreplaceable" as well as several Rihanna singles including "Good Girl Gone Bad" and "Unfaithful".
Meanwhile, on SMACK DVD, Kanye West responds to Beanie Sigel's accusations that he's gay (video below):
"I'm just saying...@#$%*%, I'm not gay. @#$%*%, don't come at me on none of that @#$%. Don't @#$ing disrespect me. I respect where he coming from. I respect Beans' gangsta, I'm not gangsta, but I'm not gay either. Don't disrespect me as a @#$%ing man. That's all I'm saying. That's it."
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Posted 12:45 PM EST by Andy Towle in I'm Not Gay, Kanye West, Music, Ne-Yo, News | Permalink
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Since most people who read this blog have no interest in hip hop and rap, why does Towleroad insist on highlighting what a particular rapper has to say regarding gays? Most people here don't seem to care what they think one way or the other.
And btw, rappers aren't the only group of people who could be labeled unabashedly bigoted....
Posted by: Ron | Aug 10, 2007 7:06:20 PM
Taken out of context, Kanye's attitude seems pretty homophobic. Within the situation however, it just appears he didn't like the circumstances of the interview. Whether he is or isn't homophobic, it seems kind of lame that he would react that way to someone asking him if he's gay. The simple answer is "No, I'm not". Getting upset about it creates the issue at hand. If he really doesn't have a problem with homosexuality, then what's the problem here? Being disrespected? Honestly, I don't care so much for his music, but if he is touted as one of the "evolved" artists in hip-hop, you would never know it by the way he is reacting and by the way he is expressing himself. "knowhatimsayn?"
Posted by: JR | Aug 10, 2007 7:24:05 PM
Oprah Winfrey, Whitney Houston, Matthew McCaugheny, John Travolta, Christopher Reeves, etc...
Doesn't the "gay community" always pretend to be normal by claiming everyone else is gay?
Posted by: Silly Wilson | Aug 10, 2007 8:31:27 PM
Kanye, wasn't your punk ass just saying not too long ago, that you support gays and that some of your family members are gay?
From AfterElton.com:
Above all, no one said it better than Kanye West in 2005 during an interview with MTV. He admitted to his own homophobia when he was a child, but when he discovered his cousin was gay he realized how hateful he was being. In relation to hip-hop Kanye explained, "Everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. 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.'"
And now you equate homosexuality as a diss to manhood? Fuck you! Get John Legend's dick out of your hypocritical mouth and talk some sense!
And just for the record, I would never disrespect you as a MAN because you would have to BE a man first.
As a bitch-ass pu**y, yes. But a MAN? Never.
Kanye: "Bush hates Black people".
Beanie Siegel: "Kanye hates bush".
Posted by: soulbrotha | Aug 11, 2007 3:27:03 AM
someone has some issues...
Posted by: r | Aug 11, 2007 4:33:15 AM
Hip-Hop is JUST SO GAY!!!!!
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Aug 11, 2007 9:52:24 AM
I've only passed by this site a few times, but decided to bookmark it and take a read, but I must say this "I'm Not Gay" section has to be the best and funniest on here.
Posted by: Brandon | Aug 16, 2007 12:53:04 PM