You can be masculine without being a thug. Nobody said all rappers had to be gangsters, whatever happened to men just being men? We dont have that now, it's like rappers are in a rat race competing with eachother to be feminine. And this troubles alot of us because of America's long history of trying to emasculate the black male. And it feels like hiphop is becoming the new tool to emasculate us because truth be told, strong black masculine males are and have always has been feared by society and popular culture since slavery.
Ive taken college classes specifically on the subject of black media depiction and black people had to struggle FOR YEARS just to have regular masculine black male characters presented fairly in media. For along time, the only black men shown were weak uncle toms or comedic c00ns. The only masculine black characters shown in old media were bucks who were depicted as basically animals. The feminine black male IS NOT a threat, America views gay black men as kind of a joke to be honest and when rappers who are supposed to represent our hiphop culture are turning towards this new feminine gimmick it's like they are reversing all the progress that we had to go through in American history just to have strong black masculine men portrayed fairly. It makes all of us look like jokes because these guys like Wayne are who corporate America and mainstream society sees representing hiphop culture.