NEW
YORK (AP) - Kanye West says "gay" has become
an antonym to hip-hop - and that it needs to be stopped.
During
an interview for an MTV special, the 27-year-old rapper launched
into a discussion about hip-hop and homosexuality while talking
about "Hey Mama," a song on his upcoming album,
"Late Registration."
West says
that when he was young, people would call him a "mama's
boy."
"And
what happened was, it made me kind of homophobic, 'cause
it's like I would go back and question myself,"
West says on the show, "All Eyes on Kanye West,"
set to air Thursday night (10:30 p.m. ET).
West
says he changed his ways, though, when he learned one
of his cousins was gay.
"It
was kind of like a turning point when I was like, 'Yo,
this is my cousin. I love him and I've been discriminating
against gays.'"
West
says hip-hop was always about "speaking your mind
and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop
discriminates against gay people." He adds that
in slang, gay is "the opposite, the exact opposite
word of hip-hop."
Kanye's
message: "Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates.
And I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers,
just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it.'"
West,
whose debut disc "The College Dropout" won
a Grammy for best rap album, will see his second record
in stores on Aug. 30.
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