Aug 21, 07 10:38 AM
Rapper Kanye West has no regrets about speaking out against homophobia in hip-hop music, even though some people now assume he's gay.
He says, "It's being in the entertainment world, I meet so many different gay people who are actually nice people. Where I came from, Chicago, being black and being a hip-hop artist, we used to really disrespect gay people. And the thing is, we can't get close to them with a 10-foot pole. And I realised, 'Wow, how ignorant has this been?'"
Kanye, now 30, says, "Speaking out against hip-hop homophobia, some people were like 'Oh, Kanye must be gay! Look at the way he's dressing! And why would he speak about it? He's a gay rapper.' And my whole point is, I wouldn't have spoke on that if I was gay or if I was in the closet. I would have stayed so far away from it."
Kanye held a fans-only concert last night he calls "the future of rap music" at the most unlikely of locations: the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, near London's Houses of Parliament.
More than 1,000 loyal West supporters dutifully stood in line for an hour outside the venue, all clutching their mobile phones with coded text messages needed for admission to the "secret" concert. Money couldn't buy the hottest ticket in town, with West's single "Stronger" at No. 1 in the U.K. charts and his new album due in September.
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