Tank is addressing homophobia among Black men as rumors swirl about his own sexuality.
During his recent appearance on the Holdin Court podcast, the “Please Don’t Go” crooner spoke on the double standard Black men face in terms of same-sex experimentation. “It’s us,” Tank began. “There’s something about Black men and the homosexual conversation that is a mess. The phobia as it relates to Black men is the elephant in the room.”
He argued that the “worst thing” a Black man can be is gay.
Tank explained, “The first thing somebody’s going to allude to — whether you are gay or not— when they trying to assassinate your character or get off the highest joke imaginable, they’re going gay first.” The father of two continued, “It stems from something within our culture that has created this stigma that somehow there’s a program to make Black men gay. You see it everywhere; there’s an attack on strong Black men. But who’s the attack coming from?”
He pondered how the double standard could exist when the likes of Prince, Michael Jackson, Cameo, and Rick James were notorious for their “androgynous” looks, noting, “That meant you were in. It didn’t mean you were gay.”
Tank questioned, “Where does this agenda come from? I’ve never seen anything that made me say, Oh wow! I want to be gay. I’m inspired to be gay ‘cuz I saw that outfit or ‘cuz YSL made this shirt.”
This conversation stemmed from comments he’d made on Angela Ye’s Lip Service podcast in 2019 when asked if performing fellatio twice would make someone gay. Of that notion, Tank stated, “It doesn’t mean he’s gay. It means he sucked d**k twice. The art of being gay is being gay. It’s a continuous state of being.”
Watch his full thoughts on homophobia and the “gay agenda” above.
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