“Who is Obie Trice“? Billboard doesn’t know and we figured you didn’t either.
But, what we do know is the Eminem protege – best known (if known at all) for his early 2000’s Hip Hop hits as part of the defunct rap group D12 and scattered offerings beyond that – became LGBT public enemy #1 when his homophobic rant in support of Kevin Hart landed him atop headlines.
The backlash was so fierce it’s led the forgotten emcee to deliver an apology. Details inside:
During a recent show in Toronto, Canada, the rapper reportedly stated (in a now deleted video):
“The state’s trying to bully you into respecting this gay shit. The state’s trying to bully you into respecting this gay shit.”
He continued with his rant:
“I could have a conversation with you but I don’t fuck with what you do,” he continued. “P*ssy only. P*ssy only. And listen, you men that changed your body to be women, you can never be a motherf*ckin’ woman. But we supposed to respect gay and they took my man Kevin Hart. [He] had to duck down [and] get off the Oscars because of this. All he wanted to do was the mothaf*ckin’ Oscars.”
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The 41-year-old’s since recanted. In a video uploaded to Instagram today, he said:
Your thoughts?
Never heard of this person, ??♂️
He did this to gain popularity. I know who Obie Trice is but most people don’t.
Popularity with homophobes you must be talking about these people make me laugh I guess this is why my gay black self goes deaf when straight blacks complain about racism hate is hate racist it homophobic. This whole Adam and eve not Adam and Steve makes me laugh because I want to know whose eves lesbian partner is or is it okay for eve because she’s a woman. No wonder black men are more likely to suffer from mental illness compared to other races when you have toxic c**** like these in the world.
F*** him!
Who is he to say what transgenders are?
It’s sad to be so unsure of your sexuality to have to question others 😉
That wasn’t an apology. That was an “oh I was just playin”. FOH with that.
He’s the absolute worst. A nobody trying desperately to be relevant
#FOH
Just say no to drugs.