On being friends with closeted gay artists
“It’s 2015, but things haven’t really changed. I’ve worked with artists who are actually gay and live to the public as though they are straight. We’re friends, and we take no pictures together, we don’t follow each other, because of what people think about homosexuality in our community. It’s like the biggest defamation or derogatory term used in the African American hip-hop culture so they don’t want to be involved or associated with someone who is openly gay because it ultimately affects their brand.”
On whether he feels closeted artists are cowards
“Not at all. There’s no blueprint here, no one that has been successful and these people want to be successful and they need to do what they need to do. That’s the route that they chose. Let them choose it. I’ll choose mine, which is to live my life open.”
