Is hip-hop culture less homophobic than before? 

Hip-hop mogul and noted LGBT ally Russell Simmons seems to think so!

See what he has to say after the jump!

Super Bowl champ Baltimore Raven Brendon Ayanbadejo hasn't backed down from his promise to use the high profile Super Bowl coverage as a platform to promote LGBT equality!

Ayanbadejo debuted a new "Time For Marriage" video today and joined LGBT-ally Russell Simmons for an interview on equality! 

Watch his new video and check out his interview with Simmons after the jump!

What Russell Simmons—the Oprah-like deified figure of hip hop—says, goes.

And this week Russell is saying a lot about the future of LGBT artists in a genre previously (and still quite) hostile to the community, thanks to Frank Ocean.

Kudos to hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons for sticking up for marriage equality in the Empire State! Russell is the latest in a growing roster of Big Apple voices wanting to be heard in the name of equality. Are you listening, Albany?!