Rick Ross Tackles Gay Rapper Topic: “You Can’t Tell Nobody Which Direction To Take Their Art” [Video]

Written By S. Samuel

Maybach Music Group leader Rick Ross recently offered a take on gay rappers being accepted in the hip-hop community and if creativity should be compromised due to sexual preference.

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In Ricky Rozay’s perspective, there should be no barriers placed on artists based on their personal lives.

Rapper Rick Ross sounded off on claims that hip-hop music was actually becoming less inclusive of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in a HuffPost Live interview this week. “You can’t tell nobody which direction to take their art,” he said. “That’s the beauty of being creative in this thing we call art.” (Huffington Post)

The “Bawse” also offered a take on Odd Future’s Frank Ocean being openly bisexual.

The conversation turned to fellow rapper T-Pain, who recently claimed that some hip-hop artists were reluctant to work with Frank Ocean, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter who revealed he had been in a romantic relationship with another man when he was 19. Though Ross said he hadn’t heard about T-Pain’s remarks, he noted, “I feel your personal life is your personal life. In my personal life, you do whatever you do. That’s your business.” (Huffington Post)

Recently, singer T-Pain gave his thoughts on the hip-hop community’s stance toward gay musicians.

“I think the radio is getting more gay-friendly,” 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. I know n***as that will not do a song with Frank Ocean just because he gay, but they need him on the f*cking song and that’s so terrible to me, man.” T-Pain also said he feels the use of “no homo” jokes are “unnecessary” and complained about people being afraid to approach him because his assistant is an out gay man. (Buzz Feed)

Last summer, New York rap veteran Talib Kweli said an openly gay emcee was not unimaginable.

“But as far as hip-hop, it’s real simple. There just needs to be a gay rapper–he doesn’t have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay–who’s better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever’s the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible. You had people like 3rd Bass and other people came through, and people respected them for their dedication to hip-hop. But people didn’t really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.” (Mother Jones)

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Written by S. Samuel

Steven Samuel is the co-founder of SOHH.com.

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