There is a pretty famous rapper named Lil Wayne. He is leading a generation of young people who listen to him music whether he said he wanted to be a leader or not.  He has a lot of very popular songs and I have heard a lot of his music.

There was a scandal a few years ago where some pictures surfaced that showed him kissing or in a very intimate moment with Baby who is a male colleague of his. More recently he has taken on a new slang term where he makes sexual innuendos about men and completes them by saying "no homo" some examples of this are lines like "i got money out the a**, no homo" or
"Just shot a video with R. Kelly, but no homo though" or even something asinine as "aha ha ha no homo". I often wonder about his underlying need to say "no homo" so much. It makes me wonder about the scandal with Baby but even more about the truths that he freestyles in a lot of his other raps.

Lil Wayne is not the type of rapper to show shame is some of the odd things that he does. He talks very openly about the mind altering out of this world drugs that he does. He has songs were he talks about doing so much cocaine that he can not feel his face or the wild nights he has with lots of women and his crew and Ecstasy. I am not one of the people that homosexuality is the result of drug use but I am one of the people that knows that drug use can affect some one's sexual behaviors. I do not know what goes on behind their closed doors but  I hope you are able to see what I am alluding too.

The last thought I will leave you with. I am a recording artist so I know the technical side of recording. For those of you who don't know about what goes into recording a song I will tell you a little secret. If I go in and record a song and my lyrics are "It's a rainy night in Georgia" but I forget them and accidentally say "It's a rainy night in Alabama" my sound engineer can go in and take out Alabama and "punch me in" at in so that I only have to say "Georgia instead of saying the whole line". Lil Wayne is a rapper known for freestyling and for those of you who have never freestyled it is a very awkward thing to do  because you have to rhyme off the top of your head and still make sense and be very comfortable with the random thoughts that may come out.

One one of Lil Wayn'e freestyle CD's he has a song where he says

Who's better than, man f*ck him
I prolly f*ck (?) and what's new
And if u hating on us yea f*ck u
And if them bit**es want  to f*ck
We wanna f*ck too

I inserted a (?) where the gender was in question because a natural rhyme and what it sounds like he says is (him) and it would make sense to sarcastically say "and what's new" and then change genders and say if someone else like a woman wants to do the same then he would do the same with her. When I google the lyrics I see that amateur Lil Wayne fans have her inserted in that line. I don't believe it and it makes me wonder if his sound engineer cleaned up his truth for his image... Again not sure what goes on behind closed doors but I advise his fans to read in between the lines.

As you know I am an advocate for equal rights so it doesn't matter to me what he does or whom he does it with, I just wish that we could move to a place where people would not feel obligated to hide their realities behind silly little catch phrases that perpetuate hatred. The funny thing about Lil Wayne's "no homo" tag is that if I put it on a name tag and added a little mark it would go from reading " Lil Wayne, No Homo" to "Lil Wayne No, Homo" .