In 2011, Nicki Minaj tried to rationalize Eminem’s use of the word “f-ggot” on her track “Roman’s Revenge” by saying he was speaking as a character he was playing. She isn’t the first female rapper to stand by a male rapper accused of homophobia. His wife Cardi B defended him in a Twitter Live video - “He literally told me he didn’t know that was a word for gays,” she said - and scolded his detractors for being offended rather than “educating.”Ĭan anyone who is fluent in English and whose job revolves around words seriously not know the connection between “gay” and “queer”? Still, fans and fellow rappers canonized him after his shooting death in June, overlooking his history of homophobia and violence against women.Įarlier this year, when Migos rapper Offset offended the LGBTQ community by rapping “I cannot vibe with queers” on YFN Lucci’s track “Boss Life,” he apologized and claimed to have meant “queer” not in the “gay” sense but in the “strange” or “odd” sense. The late rapper XXXTentacion once bragged about nearly beating a man to death in prison for looking at him a little too long while he was naked.
