White Rappers Using the N-word.

alex is def otm BUT, i guess some uses of the word are still more innocent than others?

uh atkinson = football commentator who called a black footballer a "lazy n***er" when he thought the tv show was over (it was still being broadcast in the middle east)

atkinson apologised and sed it slipped out, but jimmy hill = idiot commentator who sed atkinson did not do wrong coz the n-word is the language of the football field.

context re: ron atkinson. scroll down to the may 13 posts to get jimmy hill's take on things.

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Then explain all those ska influenced fascist bands from the late 70s/early 80s.

Er can I remind you Geir is still on this thread. Be polite please.

Haha, Chris Rock to thread also!

A white rapper shouldn't have to feel any word (beginning with "N" or otherwise) is off limits and any consequental black outrage in the hip hop community would lend itself to charges of hypocrisy; this is the natural extension of their own self-perpetuated stereotypes.

I don't quite get this - surely you're aware that it wasn't the Hip-Hop community that came up with the idea of black people calling each other "nigga"/"nigger"?

I keep thinking of Puddn'head Wilson in relationship to this question. Do you think this stems from some poor white people in the Southern states historically having the same status as black people due to mixed ancestry etc? (admittedly i know fuck all about this, i'm just kind of interested).

I know very little about the subject also: it's tricky to distinguish race from class in the USA, and to figure out how they interact: I mean, sure, some poor white folks lived under the same exploitation that black ppl did, and in some cases that lead to solidarity, but, erhm, then there's that whole lynching business...

I think the opposite. I think everyone should say it all the time, in any situation until it doesn't mean anything any more.

I think the opposite. I think everyone should say it all the time, in any situation until it doesn't mean anything any more.

-- David Allen (Davidalle...), August 8th, 2004."

ugh
the word has specific meanings that are respected by cultures with integrity

i saw him on leno the other night. what a cool fucking dweeb. remember what he said "dead nigger storage"

I think that criticism would be more pointed if it weren't for the fact that the only lyric that they kept from the original was "I never felt better in my life." They pretty much wrote a whole new song on the spot with the same chords and that refrain.

*befuddled, googles*

This is a manpurse?

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severe

what you think thirty three and the glock is for?! use the n word an pray y don't play. strict n word-bound

never ban?

Necro has said it on a couple of tunes, altho obvs he is a crazy murderer who has "killed thousands of people" so nobody's going to complain.

System of a Down "Shame on a Nigga" (yes, Serj says it)
-- AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, August 8, 2004 5:17 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

imagining serj imitating odb is making me snicker in the library

Haha "always"

J Lo got pulled up on calling Puffy her nigga by the media, and explained that Latins who live in the slums have always used the word the same way black people have

(to be honest, though 90% of this usage I hear in New York comes from Puerto Ricans or Dominicans, to the point where it occasionally gets weird: I overheard two guys complaining over the weekend about some guys they didn't like coming into the neighborhood from Harlem, and one of them was like "for real, nigga, we gotta do something about those ... umm ... we gotta do something about that")

^^^^^puerto rican dude i know says this ALL THE TIME and way more than black people i know. tho part of that might also be less self-censoring in front of whites

u know fat joe?

C: As a Puerto Rican rapper, have you ever been criticized for using the N Word?

Fat Joe: No absolutely not. Because blacks and Latinos anywhere you go in any hood, any ghetto, we’re right beside each other, and with each other all the time especially in New York City. They’ve been calling me “that nigga” my whole life. I go to Africa, and the Africans say “what’s up Fat Joe my nigga-ah?” So they don’t have a problem with it. It’s a term of endearment.

C: What about your response to people who don’t think like you or someone like Khaled who’s a Palestinian-American should be using the word?

Fat Joe: I guess Khaled is a sand-nigga. He’s a sand-nigga. (Laughs) Khaled that nigga, did you ask the 36 black rappers that are on his album with him if they have a problem with it?

sand-nigga

i think about the incomprehensibility of this phrase like once a week

j0 gettin his big word on

:D

who was it that clowned me for saying gza was very self-aware & articulate about his creative process (vs. romantic "it just comes out of me" notion of the artist) by saying "HE GOT HIS BIG WORDS ON, SON!"