RAP SHEET: Ja Rule Setting it Straight on Gay Remarks

Though he was quoted spewing homophobic rhetoric in the September edition of Complex magazine, once-hot hip-hopper Ja Rule cleared things up with AOL Music's Spinner blog. "I was taken out of context," the 31-year-old Murda Inc. rapper (legally known as Jeffrey Atkins) said about remarks he made to the hip-hop fashion magazine about needing "to step to MTV and Viacom and lets talk about all these f---ing shows that they have on MTV that is promoting homosexuality, that my kids can't watch this s---.""My statement was more about where our mind state is as a people," the pint-sized lyricist continued the clarification to Spinner. "We're focused on the wrong things -- like, our country is at war right now," he continued. "These things are more of a problem to me. Like another case I just read about -- young ladies being raped by six white men. These are the stories that should be popping up on my TV screen. That's what I was talking about, and somehow it got spun into some other s---."When probed about his stance on homosexuality and gay marriage, he took a more diplomatic approach, admitting that "it's not something that bothers me."Peculiarly enough, former rap superstar DMX bragged of having proof of Ja Rule being homosexual during their bitter feud from a few years back. As previously reported by The BV Newswire, Ja Rule's new album -- titled The Mirror' -- is due in stores in November.SOURCE OF THIS STORY