Gay rappers stand up to homophobic Trick Trick

    
Gay rapper Tori Fixx

Trick Trick, the rapper who emerged from obscurity last week in a blaze of PR-oriented homophobia by noting that he didn't want gay people buying his album with their "faggot money", is getting some opposition from the gay hip-hop community.

Whether the homophobia is real or a stunt to get attention for a little-known artist remains to be seen (if that were true, would he be a fauxmophobe?), but it is unacceptable either way.  Trailblazing gay rappers Deadlee and Tori Fixx aren’t having any of Trick Trick’s homophobia, real or imagined, with Tori Fixx telling Allhiphop.com, "It’s most peculiar that a straight man has so much time to be focused on us other folks, yet alone a group of people he so-called hates. But I surely hope no same-gender loving person supports this record."

More on the controversy, after the jump. 

Gay rapper Deadlee  

Not to be outdone, Deadlee says, "There is still a lot of hate against gays, and Trick Trick just perpetuates the hate … so if Trick Trick really does plan on putting an AK to my head, I ain’t going out like that! Trick Trick will be the only bitch that ends up dead!" 

While it is great that there are gay rappers out there battling some of the homophobia in the hip-hop community, I wish they didn’t have to resort to the same faux-macho swagger as their straight counterparts. I suppose I’m a part of the problem just by writing about this, but there’s a reason none of us knew who this Trick Trick fool was 10 days ago. Blatant homophobia like this in hip-hop is becoming less and less mainstream, as we have gay-friendly rappers like Kanye West and openly gay rappers like Tori Fixx and Deadlee on the scene. 

                                                  Homophobe rapper Trick Trick

Even as I write this, the time is running out on Trick Trick’s 5 minutes of Internet infamy, and it doesn’t seem like this blatant ploy for attention has helped out his album sales, as The Villain currently has a sales rank of #60,947 of all CDs on Tower.com. Yes, you heard that right: 60,947.

Mr. Trick is currently being outsold on that particular site by gems like Debbie Gibson’s Out of the Blue and Rick "Never Gonna Give You Up" Astley’s greatest hits CD. It seems like Trick Trick is a little late learning the lesson that hate just doesn’t sell anymore, although I can’t really expect too much from someone with a song called "2Gether 4 Ever" on their latest sure-to-flop-with-or-without-manufactured-controversy CD.

What do you think about the Trick Trick situation? Ingrained homophobia or cheap ploy to outdo the 59K album sales of his first CD? Will we know who he is 6 months from now? Will we remember who he is 6 days from now?