In the February issue GQ magazine interviews Rhythmic station Hot 97’s Mister Cee about his involvement with transgender prostitutes and they ask him the one question that goes against everything that hip hop is supposed to be for….”Are you Gay?” Mister Cee continues to deny that he is gay, he states he only likes to get head from drag queens and truth be told, that’s between him and the drag queen and the way that he labels himself is up to him yet his feigned confidence becomes evident when he continues to express deep shame and embarrassment and he is still not wanting to own up to the label “Gay.” It’s even evident in the image of the story that he is still carrying the weight of his reputation with the community that he loves, that appears to not like gays… Hip Hop…on his shoulders. As you read the story the angst Mister Cee has dealt with almost rendered him blind from abusing himself. In this country, in the black community and ESPECIALLY in the hip hop community labels are paramount and “Gay” doesn’t align with “hard,” “street,” “King,” “Niggas,” “Money,” “Bitches,” “Baby Momma,” “Hip Hop,” “Hip Hop DJ,” “VIP” and “Hoes” in the hip hop community gay is viewed as “weak” and a detriment to the genre’s percieved hardcore angle. Yet the irony is there are also the blacks that don’t want to be associated with hip hop culture and are constantly irritated by the media’s negative news reports and often biased interpretations that ALL blacks are a part of the hip hop lifestyle. Read the whole story here…
