You think that rap hasn't been criticized!?!?!? When the NWAs and 2pacs and Snoops were big, rap was heavily criticized. Language has to be bleeped on the radio, parental advisory stickers have to be placed on CDs with explicit content, you can't play certain songs on the radio, people in government have been big critics of it (I believe Cheney's wife was a big critic)
The homophobia in the black community IS talked about. And it has gotten better. You dont hear mainstream artists throw around some words like they used to.
The conversation probably got really big with Eminem because he always used gay slurs and mentioned Elton John.
Frank Ocean is a popular RnB artist that works with a lot of rappers, and hes gay.
Lol and how would you even know if the conversation was or wasn't happening anyways? How many conversations on hip hop and what's happening with black people have you been in on?
The white self pity party is so tiring. At 12% of the population, why would black issues get talked about as much, or more than mainstream issues of the majority culture? A lot of some of these issues aren't even really "black" issues, they have to do with poverty and religion. A lot of blacks are big believers in God and have a higher percentage of poverty. There ain't a lot of love or care for gays in the church or the streets.