With hip-hop, like ando said, you gotta take the bad with the good.In nature, much of hip hop is braggadocio and machismo. Black culture is a little frostier with homosexuality - and back then, especially so. You won't find these kind of slurs/references (homophobia, f* word) often in modern hip hop. It has evolved - and unfortunately our society is such that even a few decades ago, this kind of discrimination was widely accepted. Hip hop has and will progress.
That said, despite some of his homophobia, DMX was an incredibly great rapper. Many remember him for party songs, but his catalogue has a lot more than that. He was demonstrably a great rapper. I always saw a lot of Pac in him.
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