Though he was quoted spewing homophobic rhetoric in the September edition of Complex magazine, once-hot hip-hopper Ja Rule cleared things up with AOL Music's Spinner blog.
"I was taken out of context," the 31-year-old Murda Inc. rapper (legally known as Jeffrey Atkins) said about remarks he made to the hip-hop fashion magazine about needing "to step to MTV and Viacom and lets talk about all these f---ing shows that they have on MTV that is promoting homosexuality, that my kids can't watch this s---."
"My statement was more about where our mind state is as a people," the pint-sized lyricist continued the clarification to Spinner.
"We're focused on the wrong things -- like, our country is at war right now," he continued. "These things are more of a problem to me. Like another case I just read about -- young ladies being raped by six white men. These are the stories that should be popping up on my TV screen. That's what I was talking about, and somehow it got spun into some other s---."When probed about his stance on homosexuality and gay marriage, he took a more diplomatic approach, admitting that "it's not something that bothers me."
Peculiarly enough, former rap superstar DMX bragged of having proof of Ja Rule being homosexual during their bitter feud from a few years back.
As previously reported by The BV Newswire, Ja Rule's new album -- titled The Mirror' -- is due in stores in November.
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By: CORINNE on 9/26/2007 11:37PM
I AGREE WITH JARULE, ITS TOO MUCH OTHER SH*T GOING ON FOR FOLX TO WORRY BOUT WHO'S GAY AND WHO'S NOT..HOMOSEXUALITY IS WELL OUT AND IN THE OPEN, AND ME BEING A LESBIAN, DONT CARE WHAT FOLX THINK ABOUT IT, KUZ REALLY, ITS HOW I FEEL ABOUT MYSELF, AND I HAVE SELF LOVE..GO HEAD JARULE, THEY ALWAYZ SAY THAT YOU ARE A ONCE UPON A TIME FAMOUS RAPPER..HELL, YOU'LL ALWAYZ BE BEST TO ME..I HAVE ALL YO TUNES DUDE..PAY THE NEGATIVITY NO ATTENTION, KUZ THE ONES THAT ARE TALKIN, ARE THE ONES WHO DONT WANNA FACE THEIR OWN ISSUES IN THEIR OWN CLOSETS.
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By: Donald Robinson(Fasion lord and garden variety nutjob and all around dick. on 9/27/2007 12:05AM
WHO GIVES A CRAP WHAT SOMEONES SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS. I AIN'T GOING TO BED WITH THEM. RAPPERS SAY THE DUMBEST SHIT. I GUESS THEY CANT HELP IT BEING SO IGNORANT....
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By: L.A.TIMES on 9/27/2007 12:23AM
DAMNIT IF I SEE ONE MORE PERSON FALL BACK ON THE WAR!!JaRule is nothing then some frodgulent wannabe gangsta rapper and after reading waht he orginaly said about homosexuals it sounds like hes got something to hide!
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By: L.A.TIMES on 9/27/2007 12:29AM
After reading his orginial remarks it sounds like hes got something to hide. And damnit Jarule dont bring the war into this, everyone always seems to fall back on that now a days when it comes to anything " our country is at war right now"
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By: MR J on 9/27/2007 2:53AM
HEY, WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT....
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By: Lovely on 9/27/2007 8:35AM
Backpedaling, backpedaling
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By: dumaine on 9/27/2007 8:48AM
These shows are bad gay or not-television has too many negative images of blacks and or sexuality and Ja is a hypcrite because he is complaning but listen to his music!!!! He has kids so he should grow up and stop shamming black males by tap dancing for white record labels and portarying that all black young males are violent, non english speaking thugs with an I.Q. of 2!!
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By: dumaine on 9/27/2007 9:38AM
Good thing for citizen journalist and cell phone cameras because the news would cover up every bad deed done by a cop. Law enforcement and local government in the Palmdale area are corrupt and racist-even more than L.A. In fact, when LAPD officers develop a cycle of corruption and violence against the public they simply transfer them to those areas or Ventura county the same way if a white teacher gets busted for molesting children in white ares they just put him in the LAUSD around central L.A. or East L.A. in black and hispanic schools.
A security guard in Palmdale beat up a young black girl and broke her wrist for dropping a piece of cake?? Then they arrested her parents??
These security guards and cops (because the inland empire is no stranger to shooting unarmed people and then laughing about it-aka Taeshia Miller)-need to have more mental health testing before giving position of power.
Unless they want citizens to arm themselves and shoot at cops and start a cycle of violence of like in the 60’s then the government better check the background of cops, require more than the having of a GED and inquire about hate views or crimes in their personality.
I like the way CNN has a hispanic names Rick Sanchez telling black people what is and isnt racist. I like the way that they have 2 blacks at CNN from Louisiana and they send the white woman to report and slant Jena 6.
Black people who do the news need to speak up. They put them on early in the mornings when no body can watch but during the prime time hours-there isnt one black person on my t.v. doing any news. Even Tavis Smiley show isn’t worth jac shyte and that’s the only one.
I hope that Hillary Clinton or the Democrats can get the anti-hate crime laws passed which Bush and some Yahoo Republicans have been blocking-America has one of the most violent societies in the world-online with a third world country in Africa and we protest the Muslims? The Muslims aren’t nearly as bad as America.
America needs to take the lead of the Netherlands and not just learn how to build a levee system but also how to run a multi-cultural society where there isn’t an injustice or potential for mass violence on a daily basis.
Hate speech and hate crime laws need to be enforced by the Federal government to include every rank of the every police station and sheriff dept in the United States of America as well as citizens with no social or home training.
What sicko goes out and drags someone from the back of a truck until their head rips off? Hangs nooses under a tree? Law enforcement rapping a Haitian immigrant with a broom stick until his bladder rips? Goes to school with guns-(which their parents know they have) and kills students and teachers? We do all of this in America.
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By: c. on 9/27/2007 11:37AM
You guys have lost your fucken mind,
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By: dreezy on 9/27/2007 1:18PM
Im not homophobic or anything what they do is there business but I agree with his first statment. Stuff like that should not be just blasted on MTV and all these stupid ass reality tv shows. Do what you do but behind closed doors. Kids are the main ones watching MTV and this is what they have to see? Come on get off the gas!
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