What I know about hip-hop could be written on the back of a box of matches, without the box, but I mean come on: we get this everywhere. There are some metal songs/bands who are terribly homophobic/transphobic and (gasp) misogynist, but you can't censor people's right to sing about what they want to. A lot of the time it's just posture. A band or artist might sing "I hate [insert slur here]" but not believe it. I would expect it's probably only something to take seriously if they a) start putting that hate into practice (gay bashing/rape/child porno etc) or write about it elsewhere, or have it written in interviews like "hell yeah I hate [insert slur here] - should all be killed" etc.
In the end, they're entertainers and it's just music. If you don't like it, don't listen to it, but I can guarantee you there are people who listen to that and don't bother about the content, or believe there's any real earnestness about it.
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