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Kanye West acknowledged the homophobia in Hip-Hop culture in an interview with Sway Calloway in 2005. West discusses some of the instances of this homophobia that he witnessed first hand. He explains how the culture affected his own thinking when he stated: "If you see something and you don’t want to be that because there’s such a negative connotation towards it, you try to separate yourself from it so much that it made me homophobic." West further describes the plight of the LGBTQ community in hip-hop culture when the interview shifts to the discussion of the use of the word gay. West explains that being gay is the exact opposite, West states that "But everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. To me, that’s one of the standards in hip-hop is to be like, ‘You fag, you gay.’." There is a direct opposition between "hip-hop" and "gay" that Kanye West has experienced. He was also quoted in the interview stating "the exact opposite word of hip-hop is gay. Like yo, you play a record and it’s wack? That’s gay, dog. If it’s good? That’s that hip-hop shit right there! It’s the exact opposite. So me speaking for my entire culture, me looking at my rappers out there, hip-hop does discriminate against gay people. I want to just come on TV and tell my rappers, my friends, just stop it, fam. Seriously, that’s really discrimination. To me, that’s what they used to do to black people. I’m trying to tell people to just stop all that".