I love you Kanye, but jeez, you’re turning into one of those well-meaning types who overdo it and embarrass us all. The rapper/musician/fashion designer gave an extensive interview with Details magazine recently in which he proposed taking back the word “gay” from its negative connotations, as in, “that’s so gay.” Okay; so far, so good, right? Well, then he kept talking:
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, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, ‘Dude, that’s so good it’s almost . . . gay.’
So, gay people are dope, but you wouldn’t go to a gay bar ever in your life, but talking to them is fun, but as long as it’s about color combinations and fabric choices? Sigh. Well, at least he’s doing better than 50 Cent, who called Kanye “tri-sexual” in an interview with MTV News, although he seemed reassured about West’s sexuality because he knows somebody who “knows a girl who knows Kanye.” Glad that’s settled.
