Additionally, it appears that attitudes in hip-hop in general are changing regarding homosexuality, with stars like Frank Ocean coming out, and others like Eminem changing their views over the years regarding the LGBT community. Casey from Dalton, Ga Mike from Winnipeg: the manager is the owner of the bar, and he knows hes got such good. great lyrics and music is perfect for those lyrics. I guess it doesnt matter, but that is how it always sounded to me.
Homophobia in hip-hop is nothing new, but sometimes the more “conscious” arm of the genre gets a pass for having just as hateful a perspective towards the LGBT community as some of the more “gangsta” artists. Ive heard this song since I was a kid and have always thought the John and Davy in the song were perhaps gay. On the song, rappers Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Sadat X, Grand Puba and, yes, Lord Jamar all proudly voice their disdain for homosexuality.īrand Nubian were also at the center of controversy two years later, when the unedited version of their hit single “Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down” was released with Sadat X’s verse coming under fire what sounded like advocacy to violently attack gay men (“f–k up a f-t.”) In 1991, A Tribe Called Quest and Brand Nubian recorded an unreleased track called “Georgie Porgie” that they later re-worked into the more well-known song “Show Business” on their landmark album The Low End Theory.
