If you've been visting VladTV over the last year, you're no stranger to Brand Nubian rapper Lord Jamar's opinions. Perhaps his first controversial statement came when he railed against Kanye West for wearing a skirt. He explained that his flamboyant style has no place in hip-hop, adding that he's doing it out of arrogance. Lord Jamar then proceeded to record a diss track, entitled "Lift Up Your Skirt" which is aimed at Kanye West and his style.

Now HipHopDX has conducted an interview with Lord Jamar to further discuss Kanye's style and why he feels people took his statement on Instagram ("Y'all Cee where the Kanye shit is takin us right? #halfafag") out of context.

"Everybody saying that I called [Kanye West] half a f*g and all this type of sh*t," Lord Jamar said during an interview with HipHopDX. "Like the original thing, I posted a picture on my Instagram of a strong-looking Black man with a blazer on, with a dress on under it, and some sneakers. So when I said, 'Somebody mad at my hashtag, Instagram black man looking half a f*g,' I wasn't talking about Kanye. I was talking about this dude in the picture. You understand? But a lot of people said, 'Aw he's calling Kanye a half a f*g.' I never called him half a f*g. I was talking about that fashion sensibility to me was half a f*g. It was half-man, half-woman."

Kanye is often cited not only as an influential rapper but for his style, as well. However, Lord Jamar, while agreeing with the latter, agrees with it for a different reason. "This feminine, emasculated style that's trying to infiltrate Hip Hop, he's one of the pioneers of that," Lord Jamar says. "Now when I say queer, am I trying to say that gay people can't be gay? No. Everybody can be who they want to be. I don't hate anybody. I love all people. But you can love a person and not agree with their ways and actions. And there's a difference between tolerance and promotion. Okay? And you're never going to get me to promote something that I don't agree with. I can tolerate it."

Lord Jamar explained his stance on the current trends and why he believes some things in the culture should be preserved. "I'm not out there trying to bash anyone or brutalize someone or stop them from having their freedoms, but everything has parameters, too. You see what I'm saying. And I'm saying this Hip Hop shit has parameters. Things grow and evolve, but at the same time, you have to keep those parameters in order for the thing to remain what it is, or else it becomes something else. That's all I'm saying."

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Source: HipHopDX