Let’s get the obvious out of the way, Tyga has had some pathetic career moments. It’s been fun watching his ironically titled debut No Introduction flop harder than a winning game of dominoes, get chain jacked by 40 Glocc and become the but of everyone’s jokes. Regardless, he’s been able to have some form of luck. “Rack City” essentially launched DJ Mustard from buzzing local L.A. beatmaker to much sought after hitmaker and Tyga managed to sneak his way into the Kardashian clan through his stripper baby momma. Even his Last Kings clothing brand has been doing alright. With that in mind, someone out there likes Tyga. Like many artists of the social media and blogging age, there are those more concerned with personal lives than the music itself. In Tyga’s case, it’s understandable to become more interested in his personal life than musical output.
And, here we are now. Just one day after some leaked photos made the Internet rounds of his alleged relationship with a transexual actress, the memes and jokes became rampant. They were hilarious at first simply because of the ridiculous the situation was presented. A rapper gets caught cheating on his underaged girlfriend he gained by ditching his stripper baby momma with a tranny? Plus nude leaks? That sounds like a bad subplot from Empire. From a common sense perspective: Who cares? There’s something wrong in Hip Hop when a relationship with a transexual becomes the final nail in the coffin for a career. Despite Tyga’s music or public actions not working well in his favor, the way everyone is responding to this situation just reeks of immaturity. There’s something suspicious when people are more concerned with Tyga’s possible tranny love than the fact he’s currently in a relationship with someone legally underage. Then again, we’ve seen this before. R Kelly married Aaliyah when she was 14 and was later accused of creating a sex tape with a minor. Till this day, the Chicago singer’s career has remained intact.
Historically, Hip Hop’s homophobia have been linked to its transphobia. Especially with the recent spectacle that became Caityln Jenner. While everyone from 50 Cent and Plies made lighthearted jokes regarding the news, it was an uneasy feeling hearing Lord Jamar call Jenner’s transition “sickening” or Timbaland not respecting her change. Years back, it was pretty funny watching Hip Hop react to Mister Cees issues with transexuals. Now, the situation is heartbreaking considering his career was nearly destroyed over something as minimal as sexual preference. Hell, the last legs of Chingy’s career was destroyed by rumors of him being in a relationship with a transexual which later turned out to be fabricated. The fact that livelihoods are being taken by perceived sexual preference sounds behind the times. Maturity regarding sexual preference and identity doesn’t necessary mean one has to partake in that specific lifestyle. It’s 2015, maybe it’s time Hip Hop grows up, accepts social change and respect one’s own life choices. Now, let’s get back to clowning about how bad The Gold Album is please.
Ural Garrett is a Los Angeles-based journalist and HipHopDX’s Senior Features Writer. When not covering music, video games, films and the community at large, he’s in the kitchen baking like Anita. Follow him on Twitter @Uralg.
Ural Garret most likely enjoys the company of homos and trannies hence the need to defend it so passionately. Want people to stop poking fun? Maybe stop throwing your disgusting lifestyle in the faces of others.
I’m sorry but this editorial, much like this site now is pathetic.
Shut your bitch ass up and stop trying to make people accept homosexuality. If black people choose to respect God and how he created life fuck you and anybody else who disagrees.
I hate to say it. I feel the same way. Blacks don’t have to accept shit. They really need to stop trying to push unto the black community. Just leave us alone. No one in our community accepts this crap and WILL NOT accept it. So they may as well leave us alone. 😛
Agree. Why is it such an issue that we don’t accept homosexuality into our communities and in our culture? Stay strong, my people.
And rich, white assholes have made this same argument about black people for hundreds of years.
There would be no rich white Devils if it wasn’t for black people so who gives a fuck about what they think. What they should be worried about is what’s gonna happen when blacks decide to take the wealth back. It definitely won’t be long.
Man, Tyga cut your ass a check that fast?
So yall blocced me from commenting on yalls fb but want to be serious and folks to be accepting of things but yall can’t even handle one person’s input (mine) FOH!! Sincerely, DaRealNoreagga .. Hypocrisy at its finest..
When you present yourself as a tough guy heterosexual gangster rapper and you get caught up with a tranny, people wanna know what’s up….POINT BLANK. When you put ya personal shit on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, you’re open game…and just because someone chooses to LIVE as a woman does not mean we have to accept it or respect it. It DOES NOT makes one a homophobic. BRUCE JENNER will NEVER have a baby and NEVER have a cycle…HE WILL NEVER BE A WOMAN. Don’t know if it’s time for hip hop to grow up, especially considering the lack of dope commercial hip hop music as well as the maturity of it, or should I say lack of….
hahahaha wow..was expecting something totally different. oral garrett you’re whats wrong with hiphop
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I think the point is that we don’t have to accept it, but the immaturity of how our community reacts to it is problematic. There’s no need for name calling, discrimination, or violence. In matters of civil rights our community having been victimized by ignorance and hate should take the lead in tolerance of human diversity. This does not mean we have to embrace the gay lifestyle. But we don’t have to hurt people either.
the devil is working hard today. Tyga tats ambiguous NIGGA
Why does the hip hop culture have to accept it? It does not and should not. Whether you like it or not, getting screwed by another dude completely decimates a man’s manhood. And you have to be man in hip hop. Dudes don’t get screwed…lol, they screw. And Tyga knew the code before he got in the game. If he wanted to mess with trannies then he should have been a pop star…not a rapper.
Roger that
Though times are different now (better or not, you decide). Do a little history on ancient Greece and Rome. This is what the western world is based on after all. Women were the filthiest scum on earth. Sex with other men was the highest cultural representation you could get.
She has a huge dick! Tyga bent over and took that…LMAO! There is no coming back from that. He’s Chingy 2.0. Drake’s laughing hard somewhere right now.
Foku Me is better than Tyga
I knew Tyga was gay. He looks gay. For the record, If you date trannies you’re gay because trannies have d!cks and manly features.
I wonder if the liberal douche bags who write this kind of bullshit would be so accepting if they woke up one day and hundreds of white people were getting melatonin injections to change their skin color to darker. Why not, I mean, if were suppose to respect any weirdo so ashamed of who they are that they need medical surgery to change themselves, let’s just respect it in all it’s forms right?? Of course not, because that would be “Different” right?? This whole argument is so full of shit it makes me want to puke. If somebody wants to go have a complicated medical procedure and cosmetic surgery to become “Who they really are on the inside” than so be it, but that doesn’t mean I have to respect you for it. Only obligation I’m under is to “Tolerate” you, I don’t have to like you, and I don’t. As far as Tyga goes, I wouldn’t put it past him to have pulled this publicity stunt on purpose, just to get in the good graces of assholes like the guy who wrote this article. We all know that the liberal media has been trying to shove this gay shit in everyone’s face for the last 5 or some odd years. Wouldn’t be surprised if his airplay rises as a result of this scandal. That’s where we are as a society.
Only time until Drake gets comes out being gay. The whole rap game are faqqots. Drake and Tyga look gay. Lol @ this idiot thinking he’s gangsta. I send Tyga a pic of Selena Gomez in his Instagram DMs and he saw it. He thinks he’s a player.
He’s f$$cking Caitlyn Jenner on the low.
I want Foku Me d!!ck in me. Foku Me is the sexiest rapper alive.
Goodbye to his career lol. He’s Chingy now.
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All black men are gay. I wouldn’t be surprised if these overhyped black rappers have HIV.
You’re joking right?
Or maybe stop talking about “hip hop” like it’s one big homogenous identity and allow people to feel how they feel about the fraction of a percent of the population that everyone is expected to have an opinion about in 2015.
“homogeneous” you might of spelt it wrong used it correctly though. Amazing a post with homo that wasn’t a cheap shot joke… ths sites getting better commenters since i last visited.
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Send all of these black negroes back to Africa. They’re all gay and make garbage music. I hate Meek Mill, I hate Big Sean, I hate Tyga, I hate Drake, I hate Nicki Minaj…Send them all to Liberia, the capital of Ebola!
……………………………meanwhile your retarded beaner ass is on a predominantly black hiphop site, reading the news. fucking idiot.
whitey posting as a mexican
You’re an idiot if you think its predominantly black people on this website.
Predominantly black rappers/news…………fucktard.
Your are broken, in the head. Go look in the mirror, that there is global warming, now be environmental go compost in a ditch.
Son you must be gay
The way some people find fault, you’d think the some kind of reward….
Hip hop is not the problem. This stuff starts at home. Pieces like this are almost as damaging as the problems they detail.
It starts at home but its still part of the culture as well. Those are two totally separate ideas, so how is the article damaging? Do you remember the witch hunt for the “gay rapper” back in the day?
What kind of foolishness is this? Let’s approach the subject with some maturity then. Caitlyn Jenner situation – reverse the roles and situation – your little daughter comes to you, says they want their leg cut off, cause they don’t feel it’s their leg- I as a parent, would talk to my child and advise against that some would go as far as to get professional help— yet a grown man does the same thing be it Sidney Starr or Caitlyn Jenner and it’s to be accepted as normal? this is not normal, homosexuality, if they were born that way (that’s up for debate), it goes completely against the stages of evolution, it is a step back not a step forward as it is an enemy to reproduction – should these people be ridiculed for their situations? OF COURSE NOT but we also shouldn’t accept this as “The new normal” (As quoted from Jenner) – screw the times, HipHop is timeless and it has always given us “The real” – we don’t follow the culture , we are our own culture, they followed us remember?
Google homosexuality in the earths animals….bruh it just exists. Like seriously, some people are blonde some people are red head. Some people are albino. Some people are born with six toes. It’s not as common as heterosexuality. But it doesn’t mean it’s not a natural occurrence. It just is what it is.
In nature it is not homosexuality – homosexuality is described as someones sexual orientation – animals become sexually aroused and what results from that is what some call “Jungle Fever” – its not a sexual orientation, two different things
You need to read a book that wasn’t written centuries ago. Evolution isn’t about advantages. Changes occur over time and ones that are biological advantages have a tendency to stay. But recessive traits are still recessive traits and homosexuals exist outside of humanity. Stop wantonly keeping yourself stupid and catch up to the actual reality of things. Just because you think it’s wrong doesnt mean shit. People can live their lives how they wish if they aren’t hurting anyone. NOTHING you say can justify otherwise.
Thanks for this tight comment
ural garrett is a Homosexual, of course..
It’s sad reading the comments on this page. The writer definitely has a point in what he’s saying. You guys are showing complete bigotry and ignorance. You people need to grow up and change with the times.
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Word up. For a culture that has seen it’s share of discrimination, hip hop is incredibly closed minded sometimes
keep pushing that gay agenda dx the gay mafia is proud
It’s okay if he did as long as the person was a girl and he wasn’t dating a boy he is okay
Homosexuality & homophobia are not real & merely figments of the imagination of some people. Racism & fear are as well. This is all an attempt to divide an immature & unintelligent society.
I wanted this article to be good; I wanted it to cut through the bull and be, you know… visionary, but instead, the writer comes off as just as gossipy as the Hip Hop crowd he/she sets out to disparage. The very first sentence in the article has the author licking his/her chops greedily at another person’s alleged failures. They say: “Let’s get the obvious out of the way, Tyga has had some pathetic career moments. It’s been fun [?!] watching his ironically titled debut No Introduction flop harder than a winning game of dominoes, get chain jacked by 40 Glocc and become the but of everyone’s jokes.” So… it’s been “fun” watching someone’s career swing widely and into violence, but… somehow this writer is advocating a “mature” approach to journalism? When the author writes: ” Tyga managed to sneak his way into the Kardashian clan through his stripper baby momma,” how can they turn around in the next sentence and gripe that, “the way everyone is responding to this Tyga situation just reeks of immaturity”? Talk about the pot calling the kettle tranny. With writing this snakish & slippery, how dare the writer accuse “Hip Hop” of responding to this whole scandal “with immaturity” and “juvenile jokes”? Wow… lol #PEACE
i love hip pop
so sick.
agree with you Urai Garrett, progressiveness on identity issues is not a strong point in this Hip Hop culture.. and like gangsta rap… its old. Need to move with the times
Well when other comes to someone’s sex life that’s their own personal business. unless they want the world to know and put it out there on show.
But when it comes to hip hop. Reading that statement, Hip hop needs to grow up!
Shows me that the journalist that wrote this article knows nothing about hip hop.
It’s from. The opinion of the rapper. If your not happy battle him/her to challenge their opinion. I could drop a verse cussing the journalist whole family and unborn kids. That’s only my opinion that may offend but it’s hip hop and if you want to come at me pick up a mic and. bring it.
Hip hop took off harder when the rappers started speaking the truth. They need to go back to that and. forget about that dollar dollar bill yo!
Why is it that authors like this believe that somehow Hiphop must change its views on certain social issues at a faster pace or beyond that of society. Issues that have little bearing on the artform or its artists. There is a reason why we don’t take internet polls seriously or that social media surveys are given very little weight and credibility. Because even now we have not reached a point the data is a accurate reflection of society. Nearly half of americans are still against gay marriage, thats almost a 150 million americans, 4 times the population of canada. Bruce/Caitlyn jenner was the first big celebrity to transition and to have an interview to talk about what its like to be transgender, providing absolutely new information to the society at large, this was only weeks ago. The fact is that society has not addressed the status of transgender’s and straight male relationships at all. A pre-op transgender born male with a male is still considered a homosexual act, but if that same transgender has his/her twig and berries removed. now they are straight? We in society don’t understand, we have not been educated or propagandized enough to understand it. We are left to define these things for ourselves. Who a person sleeps with is a reflection of who they are. Celebs who cannot avoid judgement by virtue of the public nature of their lives homosexuals have a very feminine image in society, the antithesis of current hiphop. During Empire’s broadcast it was noted that ratings dipped significantly at gay male kissing scenes. My point is that American society does not fully understand nor accept the LGBT community, and they have even less support for the trans community. What is wrong here is that the author failed to recognize the the realities of society and attempted to apply an unrealistic ideal upon hiphop. How bout you re-publish this in a few years when it may actually have some relevance.