After being alleged to have been in a relationship with a transgender woman, Chingy nearly stopped taking pictures with members of the LGBTQ community altogether.
The St. Louis rapper discussed the fallout stemming from his 2010 picture with media personality Sidney Starr, who went on to claim that she and Chingy were dating at the time. By 2012, Starr would recant the allegation.
The "Right Thurr" rapper was recently a guest on podcast Willie D Live, where he explained why he almost stopped taking pictures with LGBTQ+ fans.
"Somebody took a picture of me being nice to a fan who came up and was excited to meet me," Chingy said in the clip below, adding, "And they based the two-year relationship line off of that."
"I was going to stop taking picture with homosexual individuals. And nothing against them, but I thought now I thought like that's what they going to do," he continued.
But the rapper would later change his mind, saying that his queer fans didn't "deserve" to catch the misplaced blame. "I ain't going to stop being me because somebody decides to be evil. That's going to come back on them at some point," Chingy said.
In April 2024, the rapper told TMZ that Starr's allegation "hurt" his career and although he forgave the former Love and Hip Hop star, he wanted to avoid being in close contact with her.
"When that happened I lost a lot of stuff based off a lie, which was just, that was the most oddest thing I've ever seen," Chingy told the outlet. "Nah, man, when the individual apologized, and it so-called went away, which it took years to blow away, nah, man. Ain't nothing good happened from that for me."