miguelbulcao said:

Agreed. There are a handful of great hip hop acts out there - The Roots, Outkast, Common - but the rest suck. Big time.

Shapeshifter said:

Nope. There's really quite more than a handful.

Field Mob.
Ghostface Killah.
Madlib.
Lupe Fiasco.
Talib Kweli.
Mos Def.

There's lots of quality hip-hop out there. It just ain't necessarily in your face. It rarely ever is. Tribe Called Quest never got a lot of airplay. De La never got a lot of airplay. PE never got a lot of airplay ("radio, suckers never play me"). That always went to the Tone Loc's, Young MC's, Coolio's and Vanilla Ice's of the day. Things aren't much different today than they were back then.

violator said:

Field Mob? Kinda commercial, well poppy.
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lyecry said:

True. And certainly moreso than the other artists I mentioned. But on 'Light Poles and Pine Trees' they manage to talk about more than just T&A and blinging. They kinda remind me of Outkast when they first dropped.

vainandy said:

regardless of whether or not ne-yo is trade, or looks like trade is irrelvant, i dont know first hand if he is and niether do you. therefore you have no right to makes such a statement, even if it just an observation. when you make observations like that, other people pick up on them, and soon enough, the straights on this board will take what you said and look at others and say, "oh hes dressed overly masculine...I bet hes trade"...now creating a new gay stereotype for us to be thrown into. and who can we thank for that...the man who decided to stereotype some else and perpetuate this image for all people with judgement to further enslave.
what im tryna say man is to watch what you say because when you go at it the way you have by putting your personal experience into it, you speak for more than yourself and i can tell you it doesnt make us look good

this is an interesting and very informative thread

Graycap23 said:

I guess you didn't see the uncensored pic Warning: NSFW!!!!!

http://img48.imageshack.u...a3hgp5.jpg


NSFW,folks!!!!!

SoulAlive said:

i can say i have now.

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wow anyone like ne-yo's single sexy love? lol its a good song!

On another site that I visit,they're saying that Ne-Yo got freaked out about the homosexual rumors,so he quickly "staged" these photos and told his manager to leak it to the Internet

"They're saying I'm gay...I gotta stop these rumors NOW!.Come here,girl and blow me.Let me get a pic of this"

SoulAlive said:

really? shame hes gotta do stuff like this if its true. didnt they say sisqo was gay to? lol

Christopher said:

Yeah,Sisqo was dogged by gay rumors too.

SoulAlive said:

Umm, probably b/c Sisqo seemed hell of too damn super gay

Nobody knows for sure except him and the men he's slept with, if any. However, the reason we are here in this thread is to discuss whether we think he is or isn't. If not, there would be no reason to click into this thread in the first place.




And that's the purpose of me making statements like that. Those trade bastards are THE most homophobic gay bashers on the face of the earth. It's bad enough to have to put up with homophobic straight people but I be DAMNED if I'm going to put up with a homophobic bastard who is bisexual.

If a straight person is reading my comments and then sees someone on the street who is dressed overly masculine, using the word "fag" ever other breath, and wonders about their sexuality.....then, mission accomplished! Those bastards live the best of both worlds, hide it, and then talk about gay people like a dog. They need and deserve for the straight world to find out about them so they can receive the same treatment we have had to put up with all of our lives.....mostly from trade because I've noticed a lot of straight people have no problem with gay people because they have nothing to prove.

Take for instance, a black woman sleeping with a white man she thought was cool and later found out he was a Klansman. Do you think she would keep his little secret and let him continue calling her and the rest of her people "niggers"? Hell no! If she's a self respecting woman, she would bust his ass out to the world and take enjoyment in watching his other Klan buddies whip his ass.



That's not creating a stereotype, it's tearing down the old ones. The gay stereotype is a limp wristed, ass swishing man who can easily have his ass kicked. Straight people don't know that these damn thugs are running around getting their dicks sucked and fucking men and then going home and fucking their girlfriends and wives. And when they do see something on TV about "down low" men, it's never a true picture because the men on the show still have some little quality about them that looks gay. These trade men don't look or act gay at all. They could be any woman's man. When the world finally sees that, a lot of this homphobia bullshit will stop.
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I can believe it. I can truly believe it because I've seen this type of shit before. And I hope Boyfromtheband reads it.

SoulAlive said:

This sounds EXTREMELY factual.....

Graycap23 said:

how does that sound Factual ???? it's just someones else opinion about why these pics surfaced.... the guy is a father so he has had experinces with women

That still doesn't mean he hasn't had experiences with men. I can't even count the number of fathers I've been with.

banks said:

Knowing how the ENTERTIANMENT machine works. Why would this wind up leaked 2 the public? Let's say that the story is NOT true, why in the hell is this NOT kept private?

vainandy said:

I do know that.... i'm aware that there are alot of gay mothers and fathers, my point is this information about him staging this photo is just someones opinion about why they surfaced now... and wanted to know why to Graycap23 it sounds EXTREMELY factual... i truly don't care if the brother is gay or straight and if he is then it should be his decision to decide if and when he wants to live that life in the open ... he shouldn't be forced out or have others who are in the life point out the reason why they feel he is in fact gay..... just live your life and let him live his

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banks said:

I've never been with any gay fathers, only closeted bisexual ones and I sent them home to their wives afterwards.




It could be someone's opinion but there is a definate possibility that the someone's opinion is right. As Graycap23 said before, why was this picture taken in the first place? If someone really likes women and only women, there's no need to try to prove it.



If, and I say the word "if" he is bisexual and is one of those types that talk shit about gay people, he doesn't deserve the right to come out in the open when he wants to. As far as living our lives and letting him live his, if he invades our lives, sleeps with us, and then shits on us afterwards, then we have the same right to invade his life and shit on him.

SoulAlive said:

I can't see the pic. I wanna see it!

I don't have a computer myself so I couldn't click the link at work. I finally clicked it over a friend's house last night. Hell, you can't see anything. Apparently his dick is just poking out over his underwear and in her mouth. All you see is shaft, no head, no balls, no pubic hair....nothing. Hell, he might as well have not even taken the picture. Of course, it was probably taken to try to prove something anyway. The fact that men might see it probably turned him on even more.
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SoulAlive said:

I guess it does look kinda staged. How can you get a pic from that angle and be holding the camera? And no, I don't think a mirror helped.

SoulAlive said:

Ladies & Gentlemen, it looks nasty (fixs or real)!!!

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violator said:

I actually like Kayne West...But he has a huge ego problem which really turns me off, at least from what I heard...wont be going to any of his concerts anytime soon!!! LOL

vainandy said:

banks said:

Regardless,it does seem kinda odd that this pic surfaced immediately after the gay rumors

vainandy said:

Thanks Vain! I finally saw the pic and your description was dead on it.
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