Kanye West: "Gay" is Now a Compliment

In an interview with Details magazine, Kanye declared an end to homophobic slurs by redesignating the word "gay" as a compliment. But while the sentiment is rather sweet, the specifics of his approach are a little... well...

"Take the word gay — like, in hip-hop, that's a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I've encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y'know, I haven't, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person — the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design — it'd be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids'll say, 'Dude, those pants are gay.' But if it's, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it's on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it's, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, 'Dude, that's so good it's almost . . . gay.'"

West's friends and professional adjuncts, who quietly pass in and out of his loft throughout the day, start cracking up, and he leaves his chair for a bit of stand-up: "'Dude, that's so good it's almost gay!' 'Dude, you pay real attention to detail — that's almost, like, gay!' 'You had a whole conversation with that girl without bringing up sex? That was, like, gay!'"

West then remarked, "Put this in the magazine: There's nothing more to be said about music. I'm the fucking end-all, be-all of music. I know what I'm doing... Now let's talk about how my fucking sweater didn't come back right from Korea. That's what's interesting me."