• Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    his one big album also had a (cringey straight guy trying to be a good ally) song where he talked about how he was super pro-gay rights, so i assumed he was a lib but i never thought he was a chud

    I remember doing the math like, “Yeah, I’m good at little league.”
    A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant
    For those that like the same sex had the characteristics
    The right-wing conservatives think it’s a decision
    And you can be cured with some treatment and religion

    Man-made, rewiring of a pre-disposition
    Playing God, aw nah, here we go
    America the brave still fears what we don’t know
    “God loves all his children” is somehow forgotten
    But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago
    I don’t know

    If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
    Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
    “Man, that’s gay” gets dropped on the daily
    We’ve become so numb to what we’re sayin’

    Our culture founded from oppression
    Yet, we don’t have acceptance for 'em
    Call each other removeds behind the keys of a message board
    A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
    “Gay” is synonymous with the lesser

    not exactly the first brick at stonewall but for a cishet dude in 2011 it’s pretty good

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      6 months ago

      I kinda remember vaguely feeling like “hmm, this could be a genuine but goofy attempt at allyship or a cash grab” probably due to the fact that the opening bars of the song were him talking about himself, who isn’t gay. But I guess in retrospect it really wasn’t important and he does mean well.