The arrest of Hot 97 DJ Mister Cee for allegedly receiving a blowjob from another man in a car parked on Manhattan’s West Side continues to reverberate around the hip-hop community. By which we mean: It’s high time everyone took homophobic shots at a man they used to respect before finding out he (allegedly!) likes dick. Enter Charlamagne Tha God, who hosts Power 105’s The Breakfast Club. On Monday, he took to trashing Cee for getting it on with a “transvestite.”
Cee’s Hot 97 colleague and friend Funk Master Flex has been defending him against the allegations, saying he “will lose that friendship” with anyone who disses Cee. Flex appeared on Charlamagne’s Monday show and was advised to tell Cee “don’t mess with prostitutes. … It’s okay if he’s gay but give him some brotherly advice and tell him to move a little better with it. He’s too old to keep getting topped off in cars and cruising for prostitutes.”
According to Charlamagne, Cee — who was picked up twice in October and November for loitering with the purpose of prostitution — “likes gettin’ it in with transexuals.” But remember: Charlamagne has no problem if Cee is gay! Okay. Perhaps this is just standard operating procedure for a radio host in NYC’s never-ending feud with others on the dial: pick a fight with Hot 97 and blammo, up go your ratings. If only it were that easy, because inherent in all of this coverage is the stigmatization black men put on gay black men.
As for Flex? His participation in this war of words —
How about we take this to the next level?
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Greasy talk, huh? Let me explain something to you right now. I know everything that moves in that building. You wanna throw a stone this morning? I know what people like and what people don’t like in that building.
— implies he knows of some closet gays at Power 105, and would have no problem outing them if the hate toward Cee remains.
EdWoody
I don’t feel sorry for any of these people. They created this culture for themselves, and now they’re reaping the rewards.
Kev C
I understand why these guys are on radio and not TV. The guy on the left is holding Alan Keyes hostage under his shirt.
ewe
What a confused bigot. Homophobic gay men of color are really boxing themselves in worse than need be.
ewe
Like me like me World. Oh won’t you like me?
Marcus
This whole thing is ridiculous…and kind of sad.
scott ny'er
in a way, maybe, i stress the maybe part, this will have good results. More people that are out and stick up for gays, the more it becomes more accepted. I mean, it’s kind of nice, for whatever reason, that Flex is fighting back.
Cam
Actually the comment that the other person made on the radio doesn’t sound homophobic at all to me.
“It’s okay if he’s gay but give him some brotherly advice and tell him to move a little better with it. He’s too old to keep getting topped off in cars and cruising for prostitutes.”
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He’s saying flat out, it’s ok if he’s gay, but tell him he’s too old to be messing around with prostitutes.
How is that anti-gay??
ewe
@Cam: It is anti gay because i do not go around telling straight people that it is ok they are straight.
ewe
@Cam: hey Cam, it’s ok to be black man. chill Babe. it’s cool. Nothin wrong with it man. Whatever floats your boat.
The sane Francis
Flex is fighting back because he knows DAMN WELL what the reality of the hip-hop community is, and urban community in general. He knows that A LOT of these guys talking shit about this DJ are on the DL. Flex is obviously cool with Mister Cee, so it is what it is. Everyone knows that a large portion of these men are closeted. It’s just going to take someone with balls to stand up and say what is brewing underneath the surface.
Shannon1981
I am all for this Flex person outing the haters. While Mister Cee should not have been doing what he was doing ( in broad daylight!), still it is the fault of the culture in which he works that he would even feel compelled to repress his sexual desires so much that he has to resort to soliciting prostitutes rather than live openly. So no complaints from me if he starts outing people. If they are all outed, they can’t be giant homophobes anymore, and this BS starts to end.
Natural Disaster
@ EdWoody who said: “I don’t feel sorry for any of these people. They created this culture for themselves, and now they’re reaping the rewards.”
Hmmm, these people created the culture for themselves? And, what culture are you a part of that apparently has never required an HRC or other rights group to fight for and promote gays? You speak as if YOUR CULTURE is flawless and completely accepting of homosexuality. Where do you live (no where in the USA that’s for sure)? Tell us, so we can all move there!
I would call you racist, but since racists by definition have to wield power (and you have none), calling you a total idiot will suffice.
james_from_cambridge
I’m curious to see if Jason is gonna skip this thread. If he can skip one story on Queerty about Black people without his usual neo-nazish comments, I think we should give him a prize, a large Black dildo. Very large, as I hear he has a prolapsed rectum.
Sed
How can they talk like this on the radio? Is this satellite radio or something?
McMike
Am I missing something? These guys could NOT be any less homophobic. They said it was no big deal if he was gay, that he needed to stop picking up prostitutes and get a boyfriend. That could not be anymore pro-gay. It’s unreal some of you are going off on these guys as if they’re somehow anti-gay now. What it sounds like is all these guys realize most of them are on the down-low and understand. I am sure the last thing they want to do is start dissing the guy for having gay sex because they would be “picking up stones”. I would bet you 4 out of 5 guys in the hip hop community have more homo sex than hetero sex. It actually sounds like this guy getting arrested is helping and not hurting the homophobia in the hip hop community.
RLS
McMike, it’s homophobic because they’re Black, and EVERYTHING Black people say or do is homophobic!!
They obviously need to learn from Whites, who are never homophobic or ever engage in any sort of antigay behavior. Ever.
Duh!!!!
valleygirl973
There is a big problem in the black community it’s called the DL these males are pretending to be heterosexuals and the crave men well guess what that makes you GAAAAAAAAYYYYYY now I have a real problem with this because they are spreading AIDS to women because they also sleep with women for apperances sake enough is enough I want a declaration of straightness if you are straight and don’t like to get down w/gays then say it loud and proud if you are gay then say it loud and proud no more hidding I want all homosexuals outted. come out come out who ever you are keeping this secret has deadly consiquences if you know some one living this lie TELL TELL TELL you could be saving a life please no more secrets your either Gay or straight no more living Dirty and Low DL
McMike
@valleygirl973: The men featured in this story, the other musicians/DJ’s, have been NOTHING but supportive of this man being gay. When this story first broke everyone was so sure people were going to hang this guy for good but it’s the complete opposite.
There are those of you in the gay community that need to grow the f*ck up. This isn’t a perfect world but this story, or the aftermath that is happening after the arrest, is one of the most positive things I have seen about homophobia. Most of us would have though the hip hop community would be the first ones to call this guy a ‘fag’ but it seems they’re all realizing there are a ton of men, as in MOST I bet, that are on the down-low.
lucretia
Call me crazy, but I agree with that dude. A 45-year-old man paying a much younger kid for sex in broad daylight in the middle of the street is not on, and he needs to get his shit together and stop doing it. Him being gay or attracted to transvestites or transgendered people (idk what he is) isn’t the problem here–him doing something ILLEGAL and honestly kind of sleazy is.
k. wilson
transgender author toni newman who wrote I RISE-THE TRANSFORMATION OF TONI NEWMAN comes out in 3 weeks.
Transgender author toni newman outted ll cool j and took polygraph to confirm the story.
transgender author toni newman confirmed dj mister cee
has been driving around in hot 97 van for over 15 years.
she was a street prostitute on 14th street in nyc 13 years ago and dj mister cee has been picking up tranny prostitutes for years.
why is it so hard for people to tell the truth?
why is it so hard to admit what you?
transgender toni newman book covers these topics about transgenders and the men who love them and have sex with them.
Tori
Can we learn the diffeence between transvestite and transexual.
divkid
@valleygirl973:
did you think all those BIG thoughts out of your own actual head?
yes?
awww, how sweet. hasn’t science come on leaps and bounds, letting someone like YOU have a vioce.
sadly, however, all the effort — and dribble on the keyboard — yielded THAT…
take it away. think it through. then come back (next time with punctuation).
oh, and google the word bisexual.
jason
Why is there this assumption that Mister Cee BJ is “gay”. In my view, he’s probably a horny bisexual black guy. The word “gay” when used as a noun is very rarely accurate even when applied to white men. Ok, he may have had a gay experience but it is highly unlikely that he is “gay” in the entirety of his sexuality.
Take home message: using the word “gay” as a noun is fraught with inaccuracies especially when you are dealing with the complexities of a human being. It is only wise to use it as an adjective – to describe specific events – rather than as a noun.
james_from_cambridge
@jason: Oops…I was right. You couldn’t help but to comment on a thread about Black people but at least it wasn’t your usual racism so…you win the Big Black Dildo for your prolapased rectum.
Cam
@ewe: said..
“@Cam: It is anti gay because i do not go around telling straight people that it is ok they are straight.”
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It’s a hell of a lot better than what was FORMERLY said. He was saying that the gay issue wasn’t a big deal, but the guy shouldn’t be seeing hookers.
If a shite said to a Suni “I have no problem with your religion” that IS actually a sign of acceptance and a big deal. If a former Klansman says that he doesn’t have a problem with somebody because they are black, same thing. It is movement and to have a DJ on a well known hip hop show, completely brush off the fact that the guy is gay seems like major movement in the right direction in the hip hip world.
higrockrockcvn68
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh soooooooooooooooooooo what ?
Ealan74
IMO Charlemagne did have a point(never thought I’d ever in life say those words), this dude is too old to be picking up hookers, getting blown in cars on street corners. It’s not a good look. But whatever…
Bulls___ radio “wars” like this were the reason I gave up listening to most urban radio. These guys will say anything to score a few ratings points. But it’s ironic: homophobic as these clowns appear to be, they act just like a bunch of drama queens.