“Yo! Yo! This ya boy Dick Dick, the realest white rapper on da planet! Fuck Eminem! Fuck Beastie Boys! Fuck Vanilla Ice! Fuck Third Bass! Fuck Bubba Sparxxx! And fuck that nerdy-ass Asher Roth! I rep this shyt for real white people! I’m the realest! Yeah, I say ‘nigger’ on my album! What you gonna do about it? I’m the first white rapper to say NIGGER in my raps and I don’t give a fuck what niggers think about it! I’m just keepin’ it real, so stop with all the protests! This is hip-hop!

These fuckin’ niggers! I wanna send a scud missile right through B.E.T. and Tom Joyner’s cruise ship! America’s going to hell in a hand basket! A black President—Fuck outta here!”

Just imagine the outcry from black folk! Imagine the outcry from hip-hop! Imagine the heat Allhiphop.com would take for giving light to a racist white rapper’s views! Take “faggot” out of Trick Trick’s statement and replace it with “nigger” and you have a powder keg of black rage! All-of-a sudden every black leader and thinker will get air time to denounce Dick Dick’s racist remarks! Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan— all of them would’ve shouted down a racist white rapper and urged a boycott of his record label! Please believe that!

But a homophobic mofo can say anything and, for the most part, black America, hip-hop America stands mute (silent)! Hypocrisy!

How many mainstream rappers/musicians came to the defense of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender (LGBT) community? Kanye West is my dude, one of the few rappers to publicly condemn homophobia, but I haven’t read where he condemned Trick Trick’s homophobia! (Fighting the paps is his hew priority!) Common has rapped about loving those whose sexual orientation is different, but as of this writing the only thing I read about him is him giving his album away for a buck and staying celibate until marriage! I love Mary J. Blige’s dirty drawhs (as she has spoken out publicly against homophobia and even posed for the cover of The Advocate, a leading gay magazine in the country), but I haven’t read a statement of condemnation from her as of this writing!

I’m just saying… (Every rapper reads Allhiphop.com, so I know they read about Trick Trick!)

In a feeble attempt by Allhiphop.com to put this homophobic debate in hip-hop context, they ran a milquetoast editorial by someone named Bill Starlin, in which he wrote:

…as we begin to become a more heterogeneous society with racial and gender paradigms shifting, I think it’s important to properly frame the Hip-Hop versus Homosexuality debate in its proper context. They are not diametrically opposed. There is an increasing number of homosexual and lesbian emcees that embrace the Hip-Hop aesthetic. … Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Sometimes that opinion is uninformed. Most hateful opinions are born of ignorance and mistrust and general lack of experience. Many rappers express sentiment similar to Trick Trick. Many others hide what they are for that reason. It runs counter to our general understanding of what a man is, mistaken or not. There are gay rappers, rapping about regular things.

(*Yawn*) They talk about “keepin’ it real,” but they wouldn’t run my blog over there! Instead, let’s bring in some cultural critic and gloss over the pain of our LGBT brothers and sisters (many of whom are hardcore hip-hop heads!)—let’s try and be “fair and balanced” by letting Billy use words like “paradigm shift,” “diametrically opposed,” “familial forced disintegration,” and “social emasculation”—a bunch of highbrow hyperbole and literary masturbation! Nigga what?

Heads don’t understand that shyt! The editorial never definitively stated that homophobia is wrong! The editorial never definitively called out Trick Trick for his grotesque imagery! What was the point? Hip-hop critics have gone soft! Hip-hop critics have got a fag mentality when confronted with homophobia!

Reading some of the comments at Allhiphop.com only reinforces the fact that religion and the Bible are like nuclear weapons in the wrong hands! Gay people be gettin’ straight ethered with these tools! Hip-hop heads used the old “I’m not racist! Some of my best friends are black” argument—“I’m not a homophobe! Some of my relatives are gay!” They claim to love their gay cousin, only to falsely condemn him to hell, based on some mythological archaic biblical understanding, which they can neither cogently articulate or cite concrete evidence to support their mythology. God, devil, heaven, hell—a bunch of intangible objects, which we have made tangible!

These hypocritical Internet gangsters condemn homosexuality out of one side of their mouth, only to turn off their computer and indulge in a little fornication with the neighborhood trick-trick (pun intended)! Very few of them have studied Old Testament literature or the history of religion! All that they believe to be the truth stems from a few church services over at Mt. Moriah with the Good Reverend Dr. Creflo Dollar! A bunch of non-freethinking wannabe theologians and shrinks that think they know the deally concerning homosexuality!

Straight folk! Remember the DAY you realized you were HETEROSEXUAL—the day you said to yourself, “Am I attracted to the opposite sex?” Remember the day you “chose” your heterosexuality? You don’t? Well I don’t either! As a straight man, I don’t remember that “definitive,” “earth-shattering,” “revelatory” day in junior high school where I realized I liked girls. It just sort of was. I didn’t have to make a conscious decision to be attracted to the opposite sex. I just was! There was no epiphany or revelation one day that allowed me to be attracted to girls! I just was! So why do many heterosexuals try to make the argument that homosexuality is a “chosen” lifestyle? Why can’t we give the gay person the benefit of the doubt that they were actually BORN attracted to the same sex, just as a straight person was BORN attracted to the opposite sex? Why can’t we accept that homosexuality is a part of the human condition—that there is absolutely nothing wrong with same-sex attraction—that homosexuality is not an aberration to human sexuality—a deviation from the norm?

It is a BELIEF that gays and lesbians CHOOSE to be homosexual. It-is-what-it-is! A BELIEF! “BELIEF” is not a concrete, proven, undeniable, uncontested, knowable, tangible fact! BELIEF is theory, hypothesis, opinion, and extrapolation—understanding about that which we have found no concrete, tangible evidence for its existence in the physical realm like “god.” BELIEF is not COGNITION—KNOWING! You don’t know for a fact that homosexuals “choose” their sexual preference and more and more, the scientific evidence is confirming that homosexuality is not a choice, but rather an innate biological sexual response and attraction to the same sex. Sexuality is not black and white! There are gray/gay areas. There are many “deviations/anomalies/aberrations” (if you will) in human sexuality. Homosexuality is not a deviation!

How do you explain the little boy who loves dolls and women’s clothes more than toy trucks and wearing his daddy’s shoes? How do you explain the little girl who would rather wear jeans than a dress and roughhouse it with the boys instead of dressing up like mama in high-heels and make-up? You’ve seen children that you knew were going to be gay or lesbian and it had nothing to do with nothing! THEY WERE BORN THAT WAY! But in our simplistic understanding of human sexuality, in an attempt to rationalize homosexuality, we say these people are born crazy for having aberrant thoughts about who they are. Yeah, that’s it! That fits neatly into our heterosexual lunch box!

Hip-hop cosigns the ignorance of the masses when those that could lend their voice to the debate (and err on the side of tolerance) stand on the sidelines and allows one group of people to be ostracized in the name of religion and what some believe is normal and abnormal.

Hip-hop better pray that a “Dick Dick” (a white racist rapper who uses the N-Word freely) doesn’t come on the scene! Maybe that’s what it will take to wake hip-hop up out of its homophobic stupor! Until then…
Hip-Hop! Where you at? Hip-hop—my beloved hip-hop—you’z a spineless Son of a Bitch!

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