We don’t follow what the kids are listening to these days—so it was up to Queerty reader Nonplussed Gay to tip us off that Boston rapper Slaine was dropping serious F-bombs on his Twitter feed.
Detained by cops while on a European tour, Slaine (born George Carroll) went off on a series of tweet rants calling the sexuality of police officers into question:
“I love my fans in Europe… But I feel bad for you guys cause you live in a world of faggot police and dicksucking socialist politicians.”
“Cops are faggots everywhere. Its Universal. Im trying to calm down and stop swearing at them cuz Im 36 hours from Boston.”
When YourMumIsDead teased the rapper about his comments, Slaine replied, “I cant even call you faggot enough times you fuckin fag fag faggot.”
For a lyricist, this guy’s got a pretty limited vocabulary.
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He’s certainly pulled the fag card before: His song “Say I Was Slaine” features the lyrics, “I wave a gun at the government with the flag in my face/Point a pistol at the president, the faggot’s erased.”
Maybe George is overcompensating for the fact that he’s a white Boston hoser in a genre dominated by African-Americans? That’s it—he’s just trying to nail down some street cred! He’s got the knee-jerk homophobia down. And he’s done the movie thing, appearing in Ben Affleck’s The Town and the upcoming Brad Pitt flick Cogan’s Trade. All that’s left is for him to get shot 12 times and survive.
Not that we’re endorsing violence or anything.
hunnylvr
What a douchebag.. the pic of him makes him look like a demented piece of white trash..which apparently, isn’t so far off. I think he’s compensating, too.. I thought that right away – little white boy trying to be all “gangsta”. It’s so laughable. It amazes me that people like this get any attention, let alone a record or movie deal. Go back where you came from, Cletus McFucknuts. No one gives a shit.
Kev C
Aww Jeesus, Edith. And now the police are infected with these limp wristed pansies. What next? Pink uniforms and Gucci handcuffs?
Marvin the Malefactor
I’m pretty sure that cops AREN’T gay, no matter what Slaine (weird name)says. That’s why you hear all those stories of police brutality against LGBTs. Queerty has run quite a few of them this year.
CBRad
He be fat and phat.
Mike in Asheville
@Kev C: Droll, very very droll.
Henry
hunnylvr said: “I think he’s compensating, too.. I thought that right away – little white boy trying to be all gangsta.”
Compensating for what, hunny? A big dick? That’s racist. Are you racist, hunny?
o
@Henry: At least he’s not a self-hating Korean pretending to be white (and using the magic of the internet to do it). There are already far too many white people who have this thing about being white. We don’t need the Asians to have this thing too.
Michael
Wow, another fat, unattractive man is homophobic. Who would have guessed?
Paul F
http://www.politicususa.com/en/proof-that-homophobia-is-associated-with-homosexual-arousal Guess someone has a problem with his secret desires.
Michael
One other thing, it’s a shame these guys will never have the balls to do this face-to-face, one-on-one…
hunnylvr
@Henry: Am I racist? No. I thought I was stating the obvious – as was also stated by this article’s author – it’s no secret, nor is it a white conspiracy, that this particular genre is dominated by African-Americans. WTF? It’s not that hard to comprehend. Guys like this talk a LOT of shit trying to gain some kind of reputation to help them compete. The music business is a soul-sucking business, and it takes either amazing talent with good luck to make it or some kind of a gimmick with a lot of noise to get noticed. Here’s a great example of the gimmick. Has nothing to do with racism. Was that simple enough English for you, or would like to toss another random, unrelated accusation?
Zeus
Well considering most people don’t even know who he is…whatever. He’s a fatty with no legs.
Kyle
This guy looks like a guy who cruises Craigslist looking for guys. I have seen pics of these guys and they all look like him. Of course they aren’t into blacks, Asians, fats or fems.
Kyle
@hunnylvr: Yes, this guy is trying to get his name out there. Saying the n-word won’t win hearts. But, saying the f-word will. Because it’s easy to mock gays today. If this were 1950, the n-word would work in his favor.
Henry
@Kyle: Re: “I have seen pics of these guys and they all look like him.” Your reply sounds pretty racist, Charles. If all of “his sort of people” look alike, what other “sort of people” do? By the way, isn’t it about time you stopped mimicking me by using a real name as an alias? Go back to posting on inoits2.
Kyle
@Henry: Lol
AKULA
How much do you bet pasty lard ass wouldn’t have the balls to pick a fight with an off duty european cop, because we all know he’s get beat so bad he’d be crying like a little girl. I’d want the video to post on u-tube so all of his 6 or 7 european fans could see it. LOL
o
@Henry: To be fair, he’s done nothing but try to catch up to you for the past year and a half, so this isn’t unexpected.
Pazmateo
NO ONE else thinks he looks like Fred Durst?!!?!
MsBiscuit
Riiiiight…. his appearance is what’s problematic here.
skzip888
Homophobic Rap meets Right-Wing talk radio. Throw in some Country Music and a bit of Scientology and the stereotype smoothie will be complete.
JRL
@Pazmateo: Yeah totally, except it’s like Fred REALLY let himself go.
Dr. Dick
…….. If he was black everyone would be decrying “The Black Community’s Wicked Homophobia” and people would be tossing “niggers ” around like this was a 1750 slave auction lol. CAN NO ONE SEE THEIR OWN HYPOCRASY!?!?!?! Everyone hates fags, not just Teh Blackz. Can we all just take this moment in and savor it for a moment?
@Paul F: What a lovely little bit of science to cite in future arguments!
CBRad
@Dr. Dick: No one ever said whites who try to be black aren’t homophobic too. In my neighborhood the wiggers are the only homophobic white kids.
kylew
Using the word “faggot” seems to be an instant way for an otherwise non-descript rapper to gain street cred and raise his profile, and queerty keeps doing their marketing for them. It’s not like we’re their target demographic, so why keep helping them?
This whole gangsta rap thing is hate speech based on masculine insecurity, so why are we at all surprised when, along with the mysogynistic hate, there’s anti-gay and anti cop crap in there too? This guy’s a nobody – let him stay that way.
Dr. Dick
@CBRad: While I appreciate what I believe you are trying to say, saying that white rappers are “trying to be black” is both ignorant and mildly insulting. Hip-hop, while largely developed by, supported by, and marketed to “The Black Communtiy,” (though I hesitate to make such a generalization) does not “belong” to us nor are the two terms interchangeable. “Acting black” does not exist. Stereotypically ‘hiphop’ vernacular/attitude/boydlanguage has been entirely conflated with our collective cultural concept of Black Men, and it is both erroneous and heartbreaking, and you are (perhaps inadvertantly) furthering this racist paradigm All Black Men = Bigoted Gangsters
And really, “wiggers” is equally offensive to any basic concept of cross-cultural tact. Im far from pc, but the term wigger is silly. Hiphop is a subculture first, pioneered and championed by Latinos, Asian, whites, etc.. in addition to Blacks, AND is currently enjoyed by a vast variety of races/ethnicites. Urban environments (the birthplace of hiphop) are meltingpots. White dudes who rap aren’t acting black, please stop simplifying my race to 1 dimension.
Kev C
@kylew: Yeah, he appears to be a shit-tier rapper who only knows 3 words: Ice, Ice, and Baby.
N. Gay
And of course, the pathetic argument (see Facebook) turns into whether “faggot” in the context of hip-hop “means” gay people or not. Twitter posts are not works of hip-hop, so the only context they carry is “you saying stuff.” And besides, it doesn’t matter. You call someone a faggot, you stoke your fans into calling people faggots. You can see it happening right there in the Twitter/Facebook posts. That is a dude, picking his words out in order to gain some sort of lame cred. Amazing to watch them shrink and whine when called out.
bobo
i think u are trying to take something small and make it big… slaine is a good guy.. his sister & manager are gay.. i have known him for 10yrs.. he would give u his shirt off his back if you needed it.. you are taking something way out of content and making it into a controversy… isnt a faggot a bundle of sticks and a cigarette????
DavyJones
@bobo: and dicksucker is just a cool nick name, huh? Yea, he definitely wasn’t making a reference to gay people… No way…
Den
I fully support that this guy is being homophobic and should NOT be writing those comments on his page…however, calling him fat and unattractive, and suggesting he be shot is just hate creating more hate. He should not be doing what he’s doing, hands down. But lets pay attention to how we’re reacting here.
CBRad
@Dr. Dick: Oh, sorry. I guess I should have said white rapper boys are trying to be Japanese.
JohnCena
This article is as every bit racist as Slaine’s comments were homophobic. But the worst part is I don’t think either side recognises it.
Mason
For those of you not following this on Twitter, Slaine has acknowledged that it was a poor choice of words and has apologized. He definitely made a misstep, but I appreciate that he stepped back, re-evaluated and was man enough to publicly admit he was wrong.
Dr. Dick
@CBRad: Im sorry, I don’t understand what you mean by that… I wasn’t trying to be cute/funny/sarcastic in my previous comment. I was simply presenting the most basic facts, exactly as I learned/experienced them. Snark does not further any intellectual points…. :/
jason
Slaine looks like Fred Durst. In any case, his vocabulary is probably limited to three-letter words. Usually, his sort can’t put together more than one syllable without having to think about the pronunciation.
bob lablow
this article and comment section is just ridiculous:
-noone here has actually listened to his music
-the article is ignorant and racist
-you’re all takin something out of context
-“faggot” is another word for wimp, weakling, “pussy” – get over it, it is not in your control to change that…and the term is not just used in hiphop
-you obviously do not know anything about hiphop and act prejudicial like the people you wanna fight, so you are nothing but hypocrites
– I don’t think he cares about what you think of his looks
– there are lots of white rappers in the US and Europe and what some of you wrote is just racist
– you want to be treated fair but you do not treat other people fair
You’re not better than other people, stop actin like you are!
N. Gay
…though he should get credit for apologizing. Amazing what a night’s sleep will do.
N. Gay
Full apology now posted on his Twitter. That Slaine’s not such a bad guy after all. Takes a big man to apologize, and an intelligent one to reflect his way to that point. His fans, on the other hand, continue to be awful human beings. Props dude.
Kev C
@bob lablow: Bob La Blow, your ignorant comments cancel out Slaine’s apology.
slanty
@N. Gay: You know just slightly less about being a man than Slaine does. He’s an overgrown teenager with a twitch in his eye.