T-Pain criticises hip-hop homophobia: ‘It’s so terrible’
By Sam Rigby
T-Pain has hit out at the homophobia within the hip-hop community.
The rapper said that while radio is becoming “more gay-friendly”, there is still a lot of prejudice in urban music.
In an interview with Vlad TV, he said: “I don’t think urban music is getting more gay-friendly because if that was the case, Frank Ocean would be on a lot more songs.”
Ocean spoke about his sexuality in a Tumblr post in July 2012, saying that his first love was a man.
“I know n***as that will not do a song with Frank Ocean just because he’s gay, but they need him on the fucking song and that’s so terrible to me man…”
He added: “It’s like, dude if you ain’t gay, then gay things shouldn’t bother you, gay people shouldn’t bother you.”
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