this is something i have always wondered. and were it not for Hip Hop would you have accepted an R&B or Pop Artist saying it?

i often wonder what makes any Black Artist say it and know they can't say other words because there supervior at these record companys would edit or delete it think "they don't care about Us" Michael Jackson.


and i wonder has hearing the word used ever offended you or someone you know?

do you ever cringe when it is used or some turkey walks down the street rapping it or singing it in a chorus?

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

I won't get much into it because my own skin color makes for a ridiculously lengthy conversation most times I say this, but on sonics alone that word is a very strong, imposing word. It just sounds right in rap songs.


Now, R&B cats I can't normally get with singing it. Takes the bite out, sounds weird. Weeknd gets away with it, at the moment I can't think of others so I don't truly know my thoughts. But on instinct I'd say it doesn't work for R&B unless it's a Curtis Mayfield/Marvin Gaye sort of song discussing the politics of it, not just referring to black people as ______.


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They use it as a filler/bridge word that also assist them in sounding/appearing to be more "street" or "hard".

Same with most uses of cursing in many cases.

I feel like many artist use theses words so often because they are trying to make sure you know that they are "street", "hood", "gangsta" or whatever.

Rap is a charade and most rappers are simply trying to convince the listener (and many cases themselves)that they are what they say they are.

I'd rather the "n word" not be used but the tooth paste has long been squeezed from the tube.

One of my biggest "mad makers" is when I see a group of black people allowing a white person to use the word freely and or sing it in a lyric of a song and defend the white person's right to use it.

That makes me absolutely livid.

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