Kanye West
“Well, it’s like when people say, ‘Give me a natural pose.’ You can’t pose natural. If you’re posing, then it’s not natural no more. So it’s statements that people say. “Dressing gay” you can’t dress like … Your dress don’t give away whether or not you like a man. Think about actors that straight dress up like a woman or something like that. People wanna label me and throw that on me all the time, but I’m so secure with my manhood. And that’s the reason why I can go toParis, why I can have conversations with people who are blatantly gay.
‘Cause I used to be scared to talk to a gay person. It’s designers that’s scared of people in hip-hop. And in hip hop, there’s people—and let’s not even say scared like homophobic — but they’re scared of the way people gonna look at them. If you see a person be like, ‘I don’t wanna stand next to Marc Jacobs ‘cause I don’t want that to bear on me because I’m just so cool.’ One of the reasons why, the perspective I come from with my raps and my songs, the reason why can’t nobody dis me — no gangsta rapper, nobody can really dis me is ‘cause it’s so authentic.”
