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• FAT JOE ON THE 'GAY MAFIA' OF HIP-HOP AND RAP MIC (VIDEO)
• FAT JOE TALKS GAY MAFIA, HOMOSEXUALY HIP HOP
• FAT JOE SAYS HIP HOP IS RUN BY THE "GAY MAFIA"
• HIP-HOP RUMORS: THE GAY MAFIA RUNS HIP-HOP, FAT JOE SAYS!
• [WATCH] DJ AKAMIKS CLAIMS DOWN LOW GAY RAPPERS ARE SLEEPG WH MIC EXECUTIV
• FAT JOE THKS HIP-HOP IS RUN BY GAY MAFIA
• THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
• VIDEO + RANT: FAT JOE AND THE GAY MAFIA 
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL
• THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
• GAY MAFIA

FAT JOE ON THE 'GAY MAFIA' OF HIP-HOP AND RAP MIC (VIDEO)

Hip-hop isn't generally known for beg the genre of preference for most LGBT performers or dienc, but now, one star is speakg up on behalf of the "gay mafia" that he's certa exists wh that world.

In an terview wh VladTV, rapper Fat Joe -- who is gearg up for the release of his yet-to-be-named eleventh album, said he's certa he's performed alongsi gay rappers. "There's lns of gay people the world, " he said. "In 2011, you've got to hi that you're gay?

If you gay, you 's your preference. "After praisg Lady Gaga's relatnship wh her LGBT dience, Fat Joe went on to ment on what he scrib as hip-hop's "gay mafia, " referrg to mic executiv and award show participants, and how he feels that gays "own" hip-hop.

FAT JOE TALKS GAY MAFIA, HOMOSEXUALY HIP HOP

"I happen to thk there's a gay mafia hip-hop, " he quipped. There may be some rappers who are unfortable talkg about their gay peers the dtry, but Fat Joe isn't one of them.

In a new terview wh VladTV, Joe talked about his belief that rappers should be able to love who they please and the potential existence of a "gay mafia" the about famed New York DJ Mister Cee, who was ught earlier this year wh a male transvte, Joe murred, sayg that he fend Cee's right to live the way he wants to.

" Joey Crack said that he's "pretty sure" that he's worked wh gay rappers himself, and poted out that there are likely closeted homosexuals throughout the entertament dtry.

FAT JOE SAYS HIP HOP IS RUN BY THE "GAY MAFIA"

"I'm pretty sure that football n****s is gay, basketball n****s is gay... "There's lns of gay people the world.

"The Puerto Rin rapper exprsed dismay at the fact that gay people still rema the closet, even our morn tim. " Exprsg his view that gay culture is already a part of hip hop, Fat Joe went so far as to speculate about the existence of a behd-the-scen gay mafia. "It's the greatt gay market the world, " Joe said of hip hop culture.

HIP-HOP RUMORS: THE GAY MAFIA RUNS HIP-HOP, FAT JOE SAYS!

"The hip hop dtry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to thk there's a gay mafia hip hop. This is a f***' gay mafia, my man, and they are power.

So why wouldn't a rapper e out and say 'I'm gay' and get that type of love?

I don't know if she's gay, but she's do that gay s**t for real. Published on: Nov 11, 2011, 1:30 AM PSTFat Joe recently sound off on homosexualy and Hip Hop, speakg wh Vlad TV about his perspective on closeted rappers and the need for gays to e out.

[WATCH] DJ AKAMIKS CLAIMS DOWN LOW GAY RAPPERS ARE SLEEPG WH MIC EXECUTIV

Durg the terview, he said that he’s fely done songs wh gay lyricists and that they shouldn’t be aaid to show who they are. “I thk I’ve done songs wh gay rappers. I’m pretty sure the football niggas is gay, the basketball niggas is gay – niggas is gay, ” he said.

“There’s lns of gay people the world. I’m a fan of, ‘Yo, I’m gay, what the fuck?

FAT JOE THKS HIP-HOP IS RUN BY GAY MAFIA

’ 2011, you gotta hi that you’re gay? Like, ‘I’m gay, what the fuck? ’ If you gay, you gay.

”He also gave his perspective on what he scrib as Hip Hop’s “gay mafia, ” referrg to those who make mov behd the scen.

He says that gay members of the media are gatekeepers and hold a posn of power. “[Hip Hop] is the greatt gay market the world.

THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED

The Hip Hop muny is most likely owned by gay. I happen to thk there’s a gay mafia Hip Hop. This is the fuckg gay mafia, man.

“So why wouldn’t a guy e out and say, ‘Yo, I’m gay’ and get that type of love? Like Lady Gaga, I don’t know if she’s gay but she’s nng wh that gay sh for real. I thk if you’re gay, rep your set.

GAY MAFIA CONTROLS HIP-HOP!? “[Hip-hop] is the greatt gay market the world.

VIDEO + RANT: FAT JOE AND THE GAY MAFIA 

The hip-hop muny is most likely owned by gay.

I happen to thk there’s a gay mafia hip-hop. This is the f—g gay mafia, man. They’re power … So why wouldn’t a guy e out and say, ‘Yo, I’m gay’ and get that type of love?

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

Like Lady Gaga, I don’t know if she’s gay, but she’s nng wh that gay s— for real. If you’re gay, rep your set.

He ntued:“I thk I’ve done songs wh gay rappers. I’m pretty sure the football n—-s is gay, the basketball n—-s is gay — n—-s is gay.

ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL

There’s lns of gay people the world. I’m a fan of ‘Yo, I’m gay, what the f—?

Like, ‘I’m gay, what the f—? ” He go on to suate the tth to the mor of a “gay mafia” the entertament world, addg, “I don’t want to get randomly killed.

Meanwhile Le1f and Mykki Blan have rightfully and repeatedly plaed about undue parisons to other LGBT artists, llg out the homophobia of that cril shorthand. From Madonna's wholale liftg of vogue to more prent-day battl about the ventn of vernacular like "sha"—non-whe gay culture is seemgly always on the verge of a breakthrough, that is until somethg more accsible and Macklemorian , the reason the queer hip hop artists are held up to a different standard has ltle to do wh their generic classifitn and their talent and way more to do wh homophobia and racism.

THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

It's also important to remember that discsns of rap by queer or gay artists tend to be unfairly foced on queer and gay men.

" The term "gay" rap particular ually refers to people intified as male and ignor the vast diversy of sexual inti available (as if sexual inty was a stable tegory to beg wh)—many of the "gay" artists culled to this tegory barely intify as "gay". From Le1f's somewhat Björkian soundsp his Tree Hoe mixtape, to Mykki Blan's aggrsively experimental dtrial rap on Gay Dog Food, to Zebra Katz's mimal masterpiece DRKLNG, to Cak' eply personal #IMF EP, to Big Momma's hyper-vlent and transgrsive album The Plague, might seem hard (if not impossible) to see the works as massively divergent om the narrative of mastream hip-hop.

)The suatn puts many gay artists and their dienc a tough bd. ) uld be quickly put beg said, the nversatn about "when a gay rapper will achieve mastream succs" is que simply sultg, and parisons between gay and straight rap (as if they were two distct genr) simply don't make sense whout implied bigotry. If I rented you a loft space gentrified Bhwick would the heat feel any different if I was a straight or gay landlord?

GAY MAFIA

In the words of rapper Dai Burger: "Straight or gay 's all sexually driven. The bt solutn to the problem of "gay rap", is to stop thkg about the classifitn self and start listeng harr to the (often outstandg) qualy of the mic beg produced.

If that eventually means more thkg about the siari and differenc between texts by queer and straight artists rather than endls nscendg parisons of "fierce" or "brave" gay micians, so be . How yall feel about this gay black mafia sh? (Gay rappers exposed) nigga.

Fat Joe stays open-md when to homosexualy.