Once more the graceness of Baron Kanye West, who informs Details magazine that he has generously decided to rehabilitate the word gay.
"I like to embody titles, y'know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that's good," declares Kanye. "Take the word gay - like, in hip-hop, that's a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I've encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y'know, I haven't, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person - the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design - it'd be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids'll say, 'Dude, those pants are gay.' But if it's, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff - where it's on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff - it's gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, 'Dude, that's so good it's almost ... GAY.'"
Thanking you, Kanye. Remarkably, this would appear to be only the first time that the hip-hop auteur has found common ground with Daily Telegraph bigwigs, who, of course have been trying to restore the word to its original meaning for years. Do you ever see the Telegraph? It's the 21st century newspaper where "gay" is banned by associate editor Simon Heffer's style guide (you have to write "homosexual"), but whose website cheerfully reprinted a Perez Hilton rumour that Michelle Obama was pregnant the other week. I do adore it. It takes a real man to admit that he is gay!!
"I like to embody titles, y'know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that's good," declares Kanye. "Take the word gay - like, in hip-hop, that's a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I've encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y'know, I haven't, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person - the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design - it'd be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids'll say, 'Dude, those pants are gay.' But if it's, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff - where it's on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff - it's gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, 'Dude, that's so good it's almost ... GAY.'"
Thanking you, Kanye. Remarkably, this would appear to be only the first time that the hip-hop auteur has found common ground with Daily Telegraph bigwigs, who, of course have been trying to restore the word to its original meaning for years. Do you ever see the Telegraph? It's the 21st century newspaper where "gay" is banned by associate editor Simon Heffer's style guide (you have to write "homosexual"), but whose website cheerfully reprinted a Perez Hilton rumour that Michelle Obama was pregnant the other week. I do adore it. It takes a real man to admit that he is gay!!
wow Kanye mr obnoxious(i hope i spelled it right) did he really say that wow im really shock only because he always has something to say.
ReplyDeleteOMG. Is this guy for real? First of all, if he had said "like" one more time, it would have been sooooo gay. I wonder how he would have felt if someone told him that?! And why would the conversation only revolve around "like art or design"? Where did this guy go to school? Did he go to school? If anything, i think this guy is enforcing stereotypes that many in the hip hop community have about the gay community. Maybe he should go to a gay bar and experience it's diversity and pick up some communication skills!
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