WATCH: I have no problems with gays, says Cassper
The rapper says the Twitter storm comes after he met a fan who said 'I want it in there' and he responded by saying 'no homo though'.
Picture: Twitter/@CassperNyovest
South African rapper Cassper Nyovest declared he was not homophobic and that he liked gay and bisexual people.
This comes after tweets he posted in 2012 made a comeback following an incident with a fan in Rosebank.
https://twitter.com/MON_DEEE/status/1065268373972549636
Don't ever fear calling someone's toxic behaviour out just because they appear to be superior than you, they will take advantage of you. @CassperNyovest treated my best friend like trash and I'm not happy about it and a tweet from 2012 just made me more maar!! pic.twitter.com/BOcxXWPggl
— THE QUEER SUPERHERO. (@monD_Motadi) November 21, 2018
In a video he posted on Twitter on Thursday, Cassper apologised for offending people with his tweets.
“I see there’s a Twitter buzz about me being homophobic, usually I ignore these things because you talk about something you give it shine, it builds. I think it was very important for me to do this video, as you can see I haven’t taken a bath, I’m stressed, my skin is breaking, I’m making an album, we are working on Mabhida. I had to take this little time and address this issue. First of all, let me just make it clear, I’m not homophobic, I have no problem with gay, bisexual people, white, black, I love everyone.
The Tito Mboweni hit-maker said: “I performed at the gay pride to support queer people, so I don’t understand how I could be seen as homophobic, this comes after some people were screenmunching tweets from like 2012 where I was trying to joke about it, I guess it was distasteful and I’d like to apologise if that offended anybody, but this whole thing comes after a situation when I was in Rosebank and this dude came up to me and he was very drunk, there was something in the picture I think when we were taking the picture and he said ‘I want it in there’ and I said ‘no homo though’ and I think he took offence and he started a thing of me being homophobic, I’d like to apologise if I offended him.”
Watch the video below.
Please note it contains some strong language:
Just to clear something for the LGBT community. Keale rata blind!!! Tse baya ke maka!!! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/9mDchUts8I
— Don Billiato (@casspernyovest) November 22, 2018
(Compiled by Batandwa Malingo)
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