2004: Jackson uses an early Playboy interview to out himself as a homophobe
By his own account, 50 Cent’s mother was bisexual, and like many heterosexual men, he’s a lot more accepting / turned-on by the concept of women loving women than he is about men loving men. In a
2004 interview with Playboy, 50 Cent told writer Rob Tennenbaum,
"I ain’t into fakkits. I don’t like gay people around me, because I’m not comfortable with what their thoughts are. I’m not prejudiced. I just don’t go with gay people and kick it — we don’t have that much in common. I’d rather hang out with a straight dude. But women who like women, that’s cool. I could actually get into that, having a woman who likes women, too. We might have more in common."
"It’s okay to write that I’m prejudiced. This is as honest as I could possibly be with you."
50 Cent goes on to explain, "It’s okay to write that I’m prejudiced. This is as honest as I could possibly be with you.
When people become celebrities, they change the way they speak. But my conversation with you is exactly the way I would have a conversation on the street. We refer to gay people as fakkits, as homos. It could be disrespectful, but that’s the facts."