A recent CBS News poll shows that 53% of Americans support same sex marriage, and among these, 33% admit they once held the opposite view and have changed their mind. It’s now the majority and I have always thought it was pointless and a total waste of time to resist, as gay union is something unavoidable, and the next generation will be amazed there was a time it was not allowed.
So why is the rap world moving backward? Snoop Lion/Dogg gave his opinion about the question in an interview with the Guardian, and he is not very optimistic, despite being open-minded himself:
‘I don't have a problem with gay people. I got some gay homies. Yeah, for real. People who were gay used to get beat up. It was cool to beat up on gay people back then. But in the 90s and 2000s, gay is a way of life. Just regular people with jobs. Now they are accepted, not classified. They just went through the same things we went through as black.’
And since the large majority of rappers are precisely black, why is it so hard for them to understand? Of course, the recent Frank Ocean’s coming out was mentioned, but Snoop had this to say:
‘Frank Ocean ain't no rapper. He's a singer. It's acceptable in the singing world, but in the rap world I don't know if it will ever be acceptable because rap is so masculine. It's like a football team. You can't be in a locker room full of motherfucking tough-ass dudes, then all of a sudden say, 'Hey, man, I like you.' You know, that's going to be tough.’
He doesn't know if homosexuality will ever be accepted in the rap world? I think he is wrong, this world is changing too, Snoop already belongs to the old generation and he should know better. Doesn’t he know that Frank Ocean is also part of the rap band Odd Future, which has also another gay member? Mainstream rap is irrelevant, and the future will tell.