Saucy Santana did not let Cam Newton sit in confusion for long. During Santana’s appearance on Newton’s “Funky Friday,” the former NFL MVP asked the rapper a question that has floated around online for years.
Cam put it on the floor directly.
“You think I’m gay?”
Santana’s answer was immediate.
“No.”
To Santana, Cam just reads as somebody who refuses to dress, move, or speak like everybody else.
“Even with your little bow tie and all that and your legs crossed, you know, your little bodysuit on, you don’t give me gay. You just a n***a. Like, you just weird.”
That was the line. Not gay, just Cam.
However, Santana did not stop there. He explained that he is used to a very specific kind of masculine presentation, so Cam’s style naturally stands out to him. Still, standing out is not the same thing as coming out.
“I can’t say weird. I’m used to, like, hood n***as. Like, you know what I’m saying? B***h, a Nike Tech…ski mask and all that…you don’t give me gay.”
Cam offered his own description.
“I’m eclectic.”
That word fits the public record around Cam’s image. The NFL has documented the evolution of Newton’s style, Vogue covered backlash he received for wearing a printed Hermès headscarf in 2019, and the Carolina Panthers once highlighted his Met Gala look as another example of how he brings fashion into sports spaces that still get tight when a man’s outfit is too loud for the locker-room crowd.
That is also where the gay rumors come in. There is no cited factual source here proving Newton is gay or showing that he has identified that way. What does exist is years of public reaction connecting his fashion choices to speculation. In 2017, BET covered the internet dragging Newton over a floral Coachella look, writing that social media roasted the romper-like outfit with jokes about his “aunty” style.
So Santana’s answer matters because he refused to validate the lazy math. Bow tie plus bodysuit does not equal gay. A floral print does not equal gay. A man crossing his legs does not equal gay. In Santana’s view, Cam is different, not decoded.
