
Offset from Migos wants you to know he's not homophobic
Migos member Offset has found himself trying to escapte the spotlight after accusations of homophobic behaviour.
This time it's the in-demand Offset who's caught flak for questionable word choices in a collab with YFN Lucci. "Boss Life" includes the line: “60K solitaire / I do not vibe with queers / I got the heart of a bear / I bust 'em down by the pair..."
The song was released in October, but a new video has brought Offset's lyrics back to the fore. Following a wave of outrage, Offset took to Instagram to try and smooth the situation over:
"I didn’t write the line about gay people," he writes. "I have said before since these issues before that I got love for all people. My passion for fashion has lead me to a lot of gay people around me who I have mad respect for and we are very cool so I’m not in a place where I’m hating like that. When I wrote that I was thinking of words that could rhyme with the others (here, lear, solitaire, bear) and I saw this definition about her having a queer feeling she was being watched and it fit what I was thinking about a stalker creepy paparazzi situation. To me that 'queer' I don’t mean someone who’s gay. I mean lame people who film you, post it and stalk you. Lingo that means strange or odd."
The context doesn't really lend itself to that explanation, and the fact that Migos have been caught up in accusations of homophobia before makes it a harder sell for the rapper.
Check out his attempt to defuse the situation below:
A post shared by OFFSET (@offsetyrn) on Jan 18, 2018 at 7:14am PST
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