Me too, LL; homophobia is homophobia, there's nothing that justifies it, including poverty or racial intolerance. To justify it by saying its hip-hop's 'aesthetic' and 'it's the way it is' is such a cop-out. What are they scared of? There are far more important things they could be focusing on unstead of gay-bashing. They lose credibility, in my eyes, when they do this.