DJ Akademiks shared his thoughts about Young Thug’s interview with Big Bank, where he claimed that downlow men are going against “man code” and claimed that, despite this view, he is not homophobic.
“A lot of people accused him of being a homosexual at that time. He never cared to really defend it,” Ak said, referencing the Atlanta rapper’s 2016 album, Jeffrey.
The album cover went viral at the time, as Thugger rocked an Asian-inspired dress.
“I think people who knew him personally, they were like, ‘No, he’s not gay. This is just art.’ I believe the LGBTQ community appreciated, even though he wasn’t homosexual, the openness and really the fluidity of some of the art he was portraying. He had no problem with it,” Ak continued.
Thug’s interview was to shoot down rumors circulating online and industry-wide that he’s a snitch. Something he denies, despite interrogation footage being released of him offering cops information as long as they agreed to keep his identity a secret.
Young Thug speaks on the codes he can’t break to Big Bank:
“Once you rat, or once you turn gay and I don’t got nothing against gay people I love yall, I can’t look at you the same. I’ma just look at you like you broke a man code.”
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“What happened now is, this idea of street stuff, and he’s been accused of being a rat. It’s not had him really get out of character, where a community that has been nothing but nice to him and really a bunch of people and a lifestyle that has nothing to do with what we’re talking about,” Ak went on. “He felt the need to kind of say, ‘If you’re this, you’re just not a man,’ because he’s trying to capitulate. He’s trying to pander to the people who believe in street morals or codes. I guess the biggest is, if we’re talking about commandments, the commandment one is thou shall not snitch. And they’re accusing him of that. So, he’s trying to use every other thing to say, ‘No, I am that guy.””