Rapper Fat Joe sat with DJ Vlad recently for a very candid interview in which he expressed his (surprisingly progressive) views on homosexuality within the rap world. According to Joe, hip-hop is “the greatest gay market in the world,” and the industry is run by an exclusive “Gay Mafia.”

I don’t claim to know more about the hip-hop world than Fat Joe, but come on, a gay mafia? It’s not that I don’t believe that there may be a group of powerful gay men in the hip-hop industry; my problem is that, if there were a gay mafia, why am I not a part of it? Is it my hair? Or maybe my shoes? I can change, Gay Mafia, I can change!

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