The rapper’s latt vio, Moment I Feared, se him mockg his effemate peer Young Thug, but hip-hop is movg beyond such kneejerk gay panic
Contents:
- SNOOP DOGG REACTS TO GAY SCENE 50 CENT'S 'POWER BOOK II: GHOST'
- SNOOP DOGG SHOCKED BY GAY SCENE RECENT EPISO OF ‘POWER BOOK II: GHOST’
- SNOOP LN -- RAP AND GAY DON'T MIX
SNOOP DOGG REACTS TO GAY SCENE 50 CENT'S 'POWER BOOK II: GHOST'
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SNOOP DOGG SHOCKED BY GAY SCENE RECENT EPISO OF ‘POWER BOOK II: GHOST’
Snoop asks him if he’s gay. ”The tle of the track meanwhile, Moment I Feared, is clearly directed towards the Young Thug-a-like, wh Snoop and fellow old-school star Rick Rock potg at him and sayg: “This sucker sh is nng rampant, ’s the moment I fear” ’s a fear of homosexualy he is implyg, is misplaced – Young Thug is engaged to a woman, and his lyrics are as hetero and ejaculate-strewn as Snoop’s own famo pornographic movie. Dpe several terviews discsg issu around homophobia and rap culture, this isn’t the first time Snoop has been openly perturbed by light signifiers of homosexualy.
”On the one hand, Snoop is the blunt end of a culture that is stgglg to keep up wh wing acceptance of homosexualy. The openly gay lik of Cak da Killa and Mykki Blan rema on the other hand, Young Thug’s populary go to show how pluralistic and acceptg hip-hop culture has bee.
It ed to be that Kanye Wt would only have to wear a pk polo shirt to have gay slurs thrown at him; now, everyone om A$AP Rocky to Travis Stt embrace flamboyant threads.
SNOOP LN -- RAP AND GAY DON'T MIX
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It is stars like this who have the Snoops of the world nfed and rortg to homophobic abe rather than ’s a start, at least. Homosexualy eaks out many rappers bee don’t rely on male sexual prows over women, one of the genre’s key tes – and yet ’s one which Young Thug and Lil Yachty still absolutely subscribe to, wh tracks full of stori of one-way sexual exchang their favour. That they need only adopt high-pched voic and wear effemate clothg for the old guard to reach for the smellg salts shows there’s a long way to go before the gay panic hip-hop tly di down.