1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: Uh are you're waiting on reparations? You're listening to Waiting 2 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: on reparations a production of I Heart Radio. All I 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: hear is nigga. This nigga that I'm telling everybody at 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: the bowling Alley where my nigga is, that everybody know 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 1: they got their triggers grass. If I actually need to 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: worry about that, I'm putting us in present for smoking grass. 7 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: Lockdown with a sentence that will last long. And they 8 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: don't want me saying the N word in my rap song. 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: Niggas want to sense to me. Put me in the penitentiary, 10 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: Lock me in the box and put me there for centurieson. 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: Then when I get mad to be like yo, that 12 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: nigga's menacing, sick my middle finger up at every racist sentity. Ah, 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: I got your white teeth, hey, white teeth. If you 14 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: come up against me with your little white sheet on 15 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: your head like you was acting all nightly trying to 16 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: say the A word, I'm probably gonna spike me. How 17 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: to spike you in the face, Like my name was 18 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: Spike Lee. And if it's Spike Lee, you better go 19 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: and do the right thing. You say the wrong shit 20 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: around me, know what it might bring and you're the 21 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: fighting motherfucker's exciting. It's like a new igniting. Alright, Hey, 22 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: what's up. My name's Dope Knife from Lingua Franca. We 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 1: are waiting on reparations. We are here another week, fresh 24 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: air to breathe now now, well, last week I just 25 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: started teaching my hip hop and Public policy class. Shout out, 26 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: Walker Swain if the department is in. Yeah, I sucked 27 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: it up, my co teacher. So tomorrow we have our 28 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: second day of class, and we're talking about Tanisi coats 29 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: is case for reparations and analyzing it for the different 30 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: public policies that come up in it as well, and 31 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: doing that same kind of analysis on most des mathematics, 32 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: sort of like look at something that's more of a 33 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: policy brief and an argument as something that's more just 34 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: like hip hop CNN coverage of life in the streets 35 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: and the way that public policy manifests in both of 36 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: those texts. The class line hour long, so that'll be 37 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: probably the whole class, but we're gonna have to we gotta, 38 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: we gotta go into that. Yeah, we should bring Walker 39 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: on the show. We should. Uh. I'm looking forward to 40 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: bring in some of my students perspectives in the future 41 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: episodes to see the kind of things that they say. 42 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: They're freshman, a little baby, so maybe they won't really 43 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: have anything insideful to say. You never know. Okay, So 44 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: we had the two conventions, and we've had the media 45 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: coverage that follows, and the different shifts in the poll 46 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: numbers and stuff like that. One of the interesting shifts 47 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: and pulling that kind of caught my eye was I 48 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: noticed that in recent weeks that the soaring high approval 49 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: numbers that Black Lives Matter had is kind of leveled 50 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: out to being something a bit more realistic. What do 51 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: you what are your thoughts on that. The thing about 52 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: these poll numbers with regards to support for b LAM, 53 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: you have to look back historically at how unpopular things 54 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: like integration of schools was at the time. Like if 55 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: you know, like it's it doesn't record, Like I think 56 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: people need to let go what I'm talking more about now, 57 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: like in the moment, because the people who are already 58 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: against it are already like manipulating imagery and stuff to 59 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: paint the protests is something that's not or to paint 60 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: the rioting is being more part of the protest than 61 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: it is. Do you think there's like a risk of protests, 62 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: fatigue and backfiring. I mean, if it weren't footage of 63 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: the protests, it would be footage, it would be fottage 64 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: from literal world star like of black people being the 65 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: ship out of each other kids that they would use 66 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: to stoke those racial fears that have always been there anyway, 67 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: So I really feel like we'd be at this point regardless. 68 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: Now I feel you on that, that's for sure. So um, 69 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: today's episode is going to be part two ongoing series 70 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: that we started at the beginning of the show called 71 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: That's Race Is. In today's episode, we're gonna be talking 72 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: about one of the most controversial words around and most 73 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: used depending on you know where you're at, Yes, party people, 74 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: I am talking about the N word. You mean ni 75 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: or at least it's hard our cousin. We're gonna talk 76 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: about how it's managed to stick around for so long 77 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: and as well as explores prevalence in hip hop music. Yeah, 78 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: and then we'll try to see what type of commentary 79 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: rappers have made on it in music as well. What 80 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: do you what's your experience with the word, you know, 81 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: besides using it in rap songs. I haven't been called 82 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: like a nigger by like a white person outside the 83 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: context of the internet, uh, in a long time, not 84 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: since I was like a kid. I feel like, what 85 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: were the contexts in which you were like elementary school, 86 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 1: Like this white kid like refused to hold the door 87 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: open for me or something and then like called me 88 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: a nigger, like as he like slammed the door in 89 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: my face. And mean, what was the aftermath? I mean, 90 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: he got in trouble. We had taken to the principal's 91 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: office of ship and like talking to but I still 92 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: had to stay. I was like in fifth grade class 93 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: with him for the rest of the year, you know, 94 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: like he was still around. Yeah, I have a similar story. 95 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: I mean when I was we're saying third grade and 96 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 1: the Malcolm X movie had just come out. You know, 97 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: motherfucker was going to school where in the cap in 98 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: the sweater that had the X on it. That was 99 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: probably the first time that I had a bunch of 100 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: heard a bunch of white kids say it to me. There. 101 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: As far as the internet ship goes and comments sections, 102 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I've have been or get called a 103 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: nigger and comments sections. But you know, I I don't 104 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: really I don't know. I just don't consider in terms 105 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: of what we're talking about. I'm not really considering like 106 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: the virtual world of the Internet and social media. But 107 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: like my father didn't really use the word that much 108 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: or even with his friends and my mom's Africans, so 109 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: like she didn't even really hear that ship, so she 110 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: came to the States. So it was something that I 111 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: got exclusively from listening to rap music and ship and 112 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: being in these international schools for you know, people who 113 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: live overseas and shipped, like nine times of ten. I 114 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: was the only black kid, or one of the only 115 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: black kids in school. So it wasn't until I graduated 116 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: high school and went to Howard University that I was 117 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: around other black folks and started hearing it more and 118 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: incorporated into how I spoke and ship out, Like what's 119 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: your usage of it is something that you only use 120 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: in your because you use it very sparingly in your 121 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: rap songs, like I use it very sparely my rap songs. 122 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 1: I have occasionally actively used it in front of white people, 123 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 1: like when I'm only with white people, and then like 124 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: felt really embarrassed and bad in what sense I was 125 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 1: trying to remember. So I was in Charleston right before 126 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 1: the pandemic hit. I was hanging out my friends Chris 127 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: and Elliott, and something happened. We were at the hotel, 128 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: like drinking and laughing, and at some point I said 129 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: stuff like nigga, what And then like I stopped and 130 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 1: I realized who else with like a bunch of these 131 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: like you know, like gnarly white dudes. And I was 132 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: just like, because I don't, like, I don't know, it's 133 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: just weird. Well, I mean, like I didn't mean, I 134 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: didn't mean to, It just slips out sometimes. I mean, 135 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: most of my white friends are like hip hop has 136 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: and people who raped, So I don't know, there's a 137 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,559 Speaker 1: certain when I say it in front of them, there's 138 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: like a certain level of not even being an issue 139 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: because everybody there knows what's up. So nobody's thinking it's 140 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: nigga that you know. It's like no one is getting 141 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: it twisted, and they just understand that. I don't know. 142 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: I don't even I'm not even really that conscious of 143 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: it now. I mean, it really literally is some I 144 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: say it the same way I would say dude, no, Yeah. 145 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: I believe to have come about in the eighteenth century, 146 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: as an adaptation of the Spanish codinia grow, which was 147 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: itself at to send the Latin adjective and I G 148 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: e r, which means black um. By the mid twentieth century, 149 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: especially the United States, has come to as we know, 150 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: be considered a racial insult, and as such it's acceptance 151 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: in popular culture, especially by non black people, has faded. 152 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: Its original English language usage, it was a word for 153 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: dark skinned individual. The earliest known published use of the 154 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: term dates back to fifteen seventy four, in a work 155 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: alluding to the n I G E r s of 156 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: the ethiop Bearing Witness. According to the Oxford's English Dictionary, 157 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: the first derogatory usage of the term wasn't recorded until 158 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: two hundred years later in seventeen seventy five. In the 159 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: Colonial America of the fifteen nineteen, one of the earliest 160 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 1: English settlers of North America, John Rolf, used any g 161 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: A r s in describing African slave ship to the 162 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: Virginia Colony in the eighteen hundreds of eighteen forties. In 163 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: the West. In US during the fur trade, it was 164 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: spelled n I G G you are, and it was 165 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: common in literature at the time. It was recorded in 166 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: the mountain Man lexicon by British explorer George Frederick Ruxton, 167 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,439 Speaker 1: and apparently it didn't have any pejorative connotation back then. 168 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: Um and I G G you are was evidently similar 169 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: to the modern use of the term dude guy. So 170 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: it's kind of similar to how it operates now, only 171 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: it was used by white people. Yeah. Um. This passage 172 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: from Ruxton's life in the Far West illustrates how the 173 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: word was used in spoken firm Uh. The speaker is 174 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: referring to himself here and he says, I'm gonna try 175 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: to do this traveler marm, This niggers, No traveler, I 176 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: are trapper marm a mountain man walk all right? Yeah, 177 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 1: didn't mount then, you know, use it. They didn't use 178 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: it in this period exclusively for black people. Also use 179 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: it for Indians, Mexicans, French men. Yeah, anyone could be 180 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: in an I A G D U I UM. The 181 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: noun slipped back and forth between derogatory and endearing. Thank 182 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: Colored and negro became more respectful alternatives with time. For example, 183 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: in the eighteen fifties, abolitionous organizations posted warnings Colored people 184 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: of Boston, you were respectfully caution to avoid conversion with 185 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: watchman and police officers of Boston. Journalists Clifton Johnson documented 186 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: in nineteen o four how it was used in the South, 187 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: specifically because it was more offensive than colored or negrown. 188 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 1: The letter Niggers in the White House. It was a 189 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: poem published in newspapers all over the country for three 190 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: years from nineteen o one to nineteen o three, in 191 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: reaction to the White House dinner that was hosted by 192 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: Theodore Roosevelt, who had invited book or T. Washington at 193 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: the time. And it reminds me kind of how Fox 194 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: News reacted when Obama invited common to the White House. 195 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: Like they were, I mean, they were going crazy for 196 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: a little bit. They're like, have you heard this song 197 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: song about the Solder? And they're all like using their shipment. 198 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: In the book Bury That Soccer, A Scandalous Love Affair 199 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 1: with the N Word by H. Lewis Smith, he writes 200 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: that replacing the e er with A changes nothing other 201 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: than the pronunciation. The African American Registry notes that brother, brother, sister, 202 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: sister are terms of endearment. Nigger was still a word 203 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: of disrespect, and the double a CP It's well has 204 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: condemned the use of both and I G G A 205 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: and I G G E R. Some early documentation of 206 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: the word not using a pejorative fashion amongst black people 207 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: was in nineteen twelve in the book The Autobiography of 208 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: an ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson, who he 209 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: could have his own episode. He's like some biracial guy 210 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: who had like the sold Yeah, we'll definitely get into him. Yeah. Um. 211 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: But he recounted in a scene from the book, when 212 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: he was in New York City at the time, he goes, 213 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: I noticed among this class of colored men the word 214 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: nigger was freely used in about the same sense as 215 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: the world fellow, and sometimes as a term of endearment. 216 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,839 Speaker 1: But I soon learned what its use was, positively and 217 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: absolutely prohibited to white men. So that was as early 218 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: the nineteen will that this was documented, a documented cultural 219 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 1: practice of it being used frequently among African Americans but 220 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: prohibited among whites. Says from two thousand six show that 221 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 1: nearly half of whites and two thirds of blacks knew 222 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: someone personally who are fewed referred to blacks by the term, 223 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: and that was two thousand six. So like some cultural 224 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: elements of it. So the implied racism of the word 225 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,719 Speaker 1: has rendered its use taboo for the most part, So 226 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: like you won't see it in magazoo zines and newspapers generally, 227 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: and if you're watching TV, you're more likely to hear 228 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: the word asks than you actually hear the word nigger, 229 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: And it's gonna be censored regardless of its usage in 230 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 1: most cases. In most cases, it's been controversial and its 231 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: use in um literature for a long time, the most 232 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: notable and lasting controversies being the words used in Mark 233 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as to 234 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: kill and Mocking Burton. The film Trouble Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 235 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: there's an interview with this English teacher named Nancy Methellis 236 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,599 Speaker 1: of the Boston Latin School, and she explains why she 237 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: doesn't use the word in class. She says words are 238 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: amongst the most powerful things there are. A grown up, 239 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: middle aged white woman using that word gives another level 240 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: of meaning than a fifteen year old African American student. 241 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 1: I think I could hurt students by using it, and 242 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: I don't feel that my minority students want to hear 243 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: their white peers use the word either. And if it 244 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 1: turns out that we're sacrificing a little academic rigor in 245 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: service of not adding to anyone's pain, maybe that's okay. Yeah, 246 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: I mean, like having a brank dialogue about the way 247 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: the word makes us all feel. I think as a 248 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 1: component of like an English light which arts class like 249 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: this or something like that is appropriate gauge different people's 250 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: comfort because I try to tell especially like why people well, 251 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: I guess exclusively white people all the time. But it's 252 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: like I might feel comfortable with like people saying that 253 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: word in certain circumstances, but I can't speak for all 254 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,719 Speaker 1: black people. I can't say that as as you know 255 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: the black person, Like this is how we all feel 256 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: about it, And it's really about gauging um, a person's 257 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: individual comfort um because I know some I mean, I 258 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: know some brothers that don't care at all. Who uses 259 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: it at all? Yeah, No, I'm never comfortable with speaking 260 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: like my individual feelings on a subject is like what 261 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: everybody else who looks like me thinks. You know, so 262 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: links and heughs once said used rightly or wrongly, ironically 263 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: or seriously of necessity for the sake of realism or 264 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: impishly for the sake of comedy. It doesn't matter. Negroes 265 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: do not like it in any book or any play whatsoever. 266 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: Be the book or play ever sys sympathetic and its 267 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: treatment of the basic problems of the race, even though 268 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: the book or play is written by a Negro, they 269 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: still do not like it. The word nigger, you see, 270 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: sums up for us who are colored, all the bit 271 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: of years of insult and struggle in America. So that's 272 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: that ship. I don't like talking to be like they 273 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: don't like it, Like who is they? Who are you? 274 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: I mean, like lazy and hughes. I ain't trying to 275 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: start ship with you, alright, pbro like, don't speak for me. 276 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: I wasn't even born yet, nigga, Like damn well, in 277 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: all fairness, he definitely came up in a time where 278 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: no white person who was saying it was saying it 279 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: because their favorite Drake song has the word in it, 280 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So just in that context, 281 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: he's probably a bit more uptight about the words usage. 282 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's not get it twisted. And this 283 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: is totally pulling numbers out of my ask. But I 284 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: would wager the like of black people in America don't 285 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: funk with white people using the word in any context. 286 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: That would just be my hunch. When giving a reason 287 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: for refusal to go into the Vietnam War, Muhammad Ali 288 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: once said, no viet cong ever called me nigger. And 289 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: that's that goodass internationalist looking at like this oppression of 290 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: the working class all around the world, How you'd take 291 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: me to unite and take down the white supremacist that's 292 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: like that. I guess the whole point of what he's 293 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: saying is especially you know, in context of the time, 294 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: it's like, you got you want me to go over 295 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: there and shoot some some brown yellow men, but y'all 296 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: aren't letting me, and we gotta fight for equality here, 297 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: So funk that? Oh shure, this is an interesting thing 298 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: that I found to check this out. In February of 299 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, the New York City Council symbolically 300 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: banned the use of the word. However, there is no 301 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: penalty for using it. The formal resolution also requests excluding 302 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: from Grammy consideration every song who's lyrics contain the word. However, 303 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,959 Speaker 1: Ron Roker, the Vice Presidents of Communications for the Recording 304 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: Academy doubted it would have any real effect on actual 305 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: nomination and not. Actually something similar with regards to awards 306 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: and stuff happened to me. I think in two thousand 307 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: and eighteen, I was passed over. I was a finalist 308 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: for the Songwriting Award, but the panel was uncomfortable that 309 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: I use the word nigger and my song you know, 310 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: soft Day but or whatever um because they thought they 311 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: thought it, I guess detracted from it's like literary merit 312 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: because it's like base and it made people uncomfortable. See, okay, 313 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: this is where this is how I would stand in it, 314 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: right if they passed you up or excluded you because 315 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: they're like, yo, we don't funk with that word. It's 316 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 1: just you know what I'm saying. On on some even 317 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: if if like someone like me would want to like 318 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: judge and be like, oh, that's like some fake moral 319 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: stance or whatever. But if it's like, hey, we don't 320 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: want to use this word and we don't wanna, it's 321 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: just like you know, we're anti this word, then be 322 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 1: anti that word. But don't make shift up like the 323 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: use of this word affects something's literary or you know, 324 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: artistic merit and ship like that. That's all like, that's 325 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: your opinion, man, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, absolutely 326 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: So in there was a Kendrick Lamar concert and he 327 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: brought a white girl up from stage to come and 328 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: sing some words to the song Matt City with him, 329 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: and she did not stop herself from saying then word. 330 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 1: It was this whole thing where like they stopped the 331 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: music and you know, he put her on blast, and 332 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't really like a mean putting her 333 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: on blast, but it was definitely like, hey, you know, 334 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,439 Speaker 1: it just seemed really kind of like staged, but whatever. 335 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: And it's like now you fast forward two years later 336 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 1: and it's like, I feel like, if it really happened, 337 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: that that girl probably would have been speaking at the 338 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: RNC like on some anti cancel culture ship at that 339 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: time that I got canceled at the Kendrick Lamar concert 340 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: and I haven't heard anything else from her, but just 341 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: in general, the whole conversation of white people hearing it 342 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: in songs and singing along with it or not, I'm 343 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: pretty sure that every white person in that stadium when 344 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: they were doing that ship was wrapping that word along 345 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: up into that point she got the ire until because 346 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: she was in the spotlight. And I mean Kendrick Lamar's 347 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: own labelmate, Schoolboy Q actually has a complete opposite stance 348 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: where he actually encourages about the fucker's at his show 349 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: to like wrap the ship along. He does specify like 350 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: use it here in this space and in this context 351 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: and not so that they don't use it on the 352 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: street or something like that's give him the wrong idea. 353 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: It's like, well my black friends, Schoolboy can said, I 354 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: can um. BBC extras, DJ Sideman actually quit his job 355 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: over report where they used the word in a quote. 356 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: It was reporting on a hate crime that had happened, 357 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: and I guess the family of the victim wanted them 358 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 1: to say what was said to the victim before. You know, 359 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 1: the same with the ML's mom had to help them 360 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: cask the funeral. It's like, we all gotta do this 361 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: ship to ask. You want to see it, you gotta 362 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: see it, and it's full horrid. Now, it did end 363 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 1: up being a white reporter that they had say it, 364 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: But I mean if I worked at BBC and I'm 365 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: just in my office and my cubicle doing my ship 366 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: and somebody walks and it's like, Yo, we got this 367 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: report where we need somebody to say nigga, and we 368 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: thought you'd be the perfect guy for the job that 369 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: might make me feel some kind of way, you know. 370 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it depends on so many dynamics 371 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: that they encounter in the workplace, Like if they have 372 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: some races, motherfucker sayre like hey sambo, like I mean, 373 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 1: like if they're already like if they're like, you know, 374 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: some smells funny when you walk in the coffee room 375 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 1: and like your whole like microaggressions, you know, like abound 376 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: in your everyday experience. That might be the tipping point 377 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: for me. Per an article in The Undefeated by Brando 378 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: Semeo Starkey, he says that white folk indoctrinated them into 379 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: accepting their supposed inferiority. These narratives illustrate the success of 380 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: the campaign of mental terrorism. In no word conveyed the 381 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 1: depth of this internalized oppression more than nigger. Black folte 382 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: rescued the word from this moldering debris a virulently racist land, 383 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: reclaimed it and renovated the slur into a celebration of 384 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: black camaraderie. Defenders of contemporary usage of nigger. Repeat this. 385 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: When this tale collides with reality, however, it shatters as 386 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: a misreading of history. The current use of the word 387 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 1: is owed less to white folk calling black folk nigger 388 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: and more to black folk who thought they were niggers 389 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: and said so. Black people have hurled the infamous word 390 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: for nearly as long as white folks have exists within 391 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: black sweet Now, because it existed within black sweech, then 392 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: I think to about a little bit earlier, the uncomfortable 393 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,239 Speaker 1: truth must be confronted. Absolutely internalized oppression of those who 394 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: called white men and black white men and women their masters. 395 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: Nigger would probably not be part of black folks's lexicon. 396 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: We black folks are, we claiming it not from bigoted 397 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,719 Speaker 1: white folks, from from our ancestors who sadly deemed their 398 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: blackness as a badge of inferiority, Which I think is interesting. 399 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: M as Motherfuck's been he got a quote from him 400 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: later on. Um, but this takes us to uh, you know, 401 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: the hip hop in a while ago, you know almost 402 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: ship at this point, over a decade ago, Nas the 403 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: Rapper ran into some controversy with his now awesome and 404 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: in my personal opinion, it's like one of you know, 405 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: standout disk and his discography, which is his untitled album 406 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. Well, it had like a 407 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: little controversy because he originally wanted to name it Nigger, 408 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: and I mean he went on a campaign to name 409 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: this ship like my next album is going to be 410 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: called you know what I'm saying. So you had like 411 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: a year or however long building up of just knowing 412 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: that that was going to be the name of his 413 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: next album. And it's like the closer that it got 414 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: to what it was supposed to come out, the more 415 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: he didn't debate it if a topic it became, he 416 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: ended up not naming it that and decided to go 417 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: with untitled for the project because he started having problems 418 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: with Walmart saying that they weren't going to sell it 419 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: and you know, other retailers, which is a whole other 420 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 1: funny thing in itself because it's like, think of a 421 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: time in music where whether or not Walmart sold your 422 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: CD was determined Yea or Baker Break Like this is 423 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: before the Internet was really like the main means of 424 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: consuming music and ship. But you know, anyway, he ended 425 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: up changing it, and uh, some of his thoughts in 426 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: the matter. He said, it's all about the intent and 427 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: which you mean, how it's coming off, the reasons why 428 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 1: you're saying it. You know, if it's intent is angry 429 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 1: and you're being ignorant, being mean spirited saying that word, 430 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: it means the worst. If you just a couple of 431 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: black guys in the street corner, doesn't mean it's a 432 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 1: great thing. But it's not that they're trying to harm 433 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: each other. I mean, I think he's kind of contradicting 434 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 1: himself a little bit. He talks about the intent and 435 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: then also how it's coming off and how they both matter. 436 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: So I kind of feel like he's kind of a 437 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: look a bit confused in this quote. It will hould 438 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: up all the semantics, But I mean I understand like 439 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: getting pressured. I mean, there's there's a constant battle between 440 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: like the younger generations and like the elders. I think 441 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: in the black community there's a special relationship and special 442 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: reverence for our elders. And so I can see where 443 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: he's coming from with like not liking the heat that 444 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: he's getting when he's like a he's a very skilled 445 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: artist and wanting to bring attention to like his artistry 446 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: rather than like a controversy surrounding a word with which 447 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: he has labeled his music. Brooklyn assemblymen Kim Jefferies suggested 448 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: that New York's Controller withdraw eighty four million dollars from 449 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,119 Speaker 1: the state pension fund that has been invested into Universal, 450 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: the parent company of Vendi, which put out the album, 451 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: if the title wasn't change damn So. Chairman of Death 452 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: Jam at the time, l A. Reid, stated that the 453 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: label fully back NAS and his decision on name his album, 454 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: and NAS also received her support from Ice Cube, Jay Z, 455 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: Bishop Lamar Keys at the local j Revron comment A 456 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: com at Man, Blue May Biasco, David Banner, jess A 457 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: and Melimo. But and the kitchen in the kitchen fucking thing, 458 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: so pretty much all of hip hop was behind him. 459 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: In addition to the head of his label comments said, 460 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: NASA is always bringing something new. Man, I've been smoking 461 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 1: too much to do my common voice. I can't go 462 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: down the outives. NASA has always been doing. Oh my god, 463 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: NASA has always been a common said, NASA has always 464 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: been bringing something new, bringing something for us to think about. 465 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,199 Speaker 1: He's one of the best ever. If it wasn't for Nas. 466 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: A lot of cats, including myself, wouldn't be rhyming the 467 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: way they do. So, I mean, I know the title 468 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,120 Speaker 1: of something behind what he's doing. He's making statements. That's 469 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: something we need in hip hop. Last poets did it, 470 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: Gil Scott Heron did it, Marvin Gay did it. We 471 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: gotta keep making statements. What is the statement? Like, what 472 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: is the point? Well, that's what this is. We talked 473 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: about this, which is like, don't give every not everybody 474 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: had like some huge master plan about ship. You know 475 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I think if Nas were, if Nasa 476 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 1: were a different rapper other than Nas, I think he 477 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: would have just done it to be provocative, which there's 478 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with I make music to try to be provocative, 479 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: to do it, you know what I'm saying. But I 480 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: think because of the weight of being Nas that people 481 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: might have felt that there had to be some deep 482 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: meaning and reason for why he did it. Yeah, he 483 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: did get criticism from fifty Will Smith, of course, Al Sharpton, 484 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly, Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Jackson and unless we said 485 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: before the double A CP wasn't too happy about this either. 486 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: In fact that Al Sharpton said, brendan age where they're 487 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: hanging nooses locking our kids up in Gina and Florida. 488 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: We do not need to be degrading ourselves. We get 489 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: degraded enough. I think we need artists to lift us up, 490 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: not knock us down. And this is pretty fun. This 491 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 1: nonsense man, that's stoopids stupid name doesn't make any sense. 492 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: Why would you name it that? Bruce straight to it. 493 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: None of the explanations really seemed to make sense to me, 494 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: and I don't think it made that much sense to 495 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: him either, which is why he like quickly it was like, 496 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: you know what, the different title ain't worth putting up 497 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: the fight over. Let's stick into our music discussion for today. 498 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: So when it comes to the N word used in 499 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: music for the music discussion, pretty much it comes down 500 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: to a lot of rap songs use the N word 501 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,120 Speaker 1: c N All right, everybody see you next week. I'm 502 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: just joking. So one of the earliest recordings of the 503 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: use of the word in a rap song the rapper 504 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: Scooby D and his song Scooby Rap. Here's the passage 505 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: and so in this context, and it sort of used 506 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: prejoratively among African Americans that in the next line, he's like, 507 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: stay back, suck U suck to stay back. I mean 508 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: it's still in that context, is still kind of dude 509 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: or fellow ish, I show these dudes where to go, 510 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: you know, and that I think a better example what 511 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: you're talking about is going to be on the next 512 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: song that we got, which is Niggas and Flies by Scarface. 513 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: Let's check your class, Thomas, motherfucking So he's kind of 514 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: like lobbying critiques at niggas generally. Damn, this is a 515 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: pretty scathing indictment establishment black people, It really is. That 516 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: song is actually on the soundtrack to the movie Dead 517 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: Presidents by the Hughes Brothers. What do you feel about 518 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: his use of the word nigga in that context of 519 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: like making that indictment, It constructs the sense of familiarity, 520 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: like I know you bish. Yeah, Like I might not 521 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: never met Clarence Thomas in my life, but if I'm 522 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: gonna call him a nigga, it's because, like I am, 523 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: I'm asserting that I have this like this intimate knowledge. Yeah, 524 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: I know, I know who you are. I know who 525 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: you are. Yeah, Yeah, that's good. So the next JOm 526 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: we got is the track Niggas for Life by nWay. 527 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: This song is literally about the topic of why do 528 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: they use the word niggas so much in their rap music? 529 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: A lot of it's the U and cheek. I get 530 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: the impression the song is done more for laughs than anything, 531 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: but you know, some of it is definitely coming from 532 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: the heart as far as they're concerned. Let's check, because 533 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: police always want to harrass me every time that I'm 534 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: lent ron. First, I want to take note of the 535 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: intro where you hear like the cascade of vocals of 536 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: different black and white people disapproving of how often they 537 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: use the word in their music and ship, and then 538 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: you have that one like voice in the distance of 539 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: like a racist white dude going the niggers right before 540 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,719 Speaker 1: the song starts. That's some ship. I think it's an 541 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: interesting indictment of like the situation that it's like, no 542 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: wonder I self identify by this pejorative if you look 543 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: at everything that's happening around me, talking about I'm not 544 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: trying to flip burgers, I'm not trying to get shot, 545 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: dropping a liquor store, all these like these bleak circumstances 546 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: around someone. It's like why wouldn't I Why wouldn't I 547 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: call myself a nigger? You gotta keep in mind when 548 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: n w A made that song, like adults weren't fucking 549 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: with though, you know what I mean, Like older Black 550 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 1: people weren't cool with why do I call myself a 551 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: nigked They were literally steamrolling records in the streets on 552 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: like writing protests to like stuff like this coming out 553 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: and ship like that. So some of it is reactionary 554 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,959 Speaker 1: to to like being young men that suddenly find themselves 555 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: famous and making money making the music that they're making, 556 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: and then having this strong reaction from the elders in 557 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: your community for a specific word, like something's wrong with 558 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: you because you're using this word in your music, this word, 559 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 1: as opposed to all the other things that you could 560 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: be doing this word. This is where you draw on 561 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: the line. Okay um. Next we have the title song 562 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: off of NASA's now untitled album This Is and I 563 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: Double g e Er off the album untitled They Double 564 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: g E We all much more, but still what you 565 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: ignore the obvious we are the slave. Okay. First off, 566 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 1: I just want to say the song's fucking dope, regardless 567 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: of whatever sucking Flow Imagery. The second verse guys, I 568 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna start giving like more like strong opinions about music. 569 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: But the second verse of this song is some of 570 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: NAS's best work, point blank period. He goes off in 571 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: the imagery talking about the ten foil Antenna's dyeing your 572 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: hair at the cool aid. I die my hair with 573 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: cool Ai when I was a little too, did you ah? 574 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: But I think I mean in the framing, I guess 575 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: this gives me it's funny that he went to war 576 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: with the in double a C P over the title 577 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: of this album, even that he is called a framing 578 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: it like they call us this, but we're so much more. 579 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: It's reaction. I mean, I feel like I feel like 580 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 1: I'm both. I had to feel like. I don't know 581 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: how much he really really was thinking about explain at 582 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: least at the very least explaining the title before the controversy. 583 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: But um, I think that if a lot of the 584 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: people who reacted badly to it had actually listened to 585 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: the album first, that I could have helped in like 586 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: coming up with an opinion about the ship. You know, 587 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: if you hear the ship first. I don't know, that's 588 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: just yeah, yeah, I think this was the first song too, 589 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: so it would have kind of put ship in a 590 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: little bit framing if you had just like given the 591 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: album like a minute long listen, yeah, at least a single. 592 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: As soon as you put the name of the album out, 593 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: people be like, So I originally had jay z is 594 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 1: the story of o j on here, but then I 595 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 1: was kind of gonna take it off because I was thinking, Man, 596 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 1: all he does is say the word nigga over and 597 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: over again, but there's not really any sort of context 598 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: or insight that we can really get from the usage 599 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 1: of it. But um, hey, that's not true the more 600 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: I thought about it. But second, the opening line of 601 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 1: the song, uh made me reference that Undefeated article that 602 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,240 Speaker 1: we were talking about earlier. Let's check out this still 603 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:22,399 Speaker 1: ni OJ like, I'm not black, I'm o Jay, don't 604 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: funk with me, right, So going back to Brando Starkey's article, 605 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 1: which by the way, was titled if you truly knew 606 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 1: what the N word meant, our ancestors, you'd never use it. 607 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: But he's got this passage in there that relates to 608 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 1: this line. So he said. Perhaps more depressing, ironically, was 609 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: that the circumstances sometimes led them to opt against calling 610 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: a black person a nigger. William Porter stated that some 611 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 1: of the Tennessee niggers were called free niggers. There was 612 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: a colored man in Polanski, Tennessee, who owned slaves, a 613 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 1: black man who kept others in bondage. He's a colored man, 614 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,360 Speaker 1: yet those who he kept in dage were niggers. I 615 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: instantly thought of the moment from O J made an 616 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,760 Speaker 1: America documentary when a white woman saw black people talking 617 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: to o J. And she uttered, look at those niggers 618 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,320 Speaker 1: sitting with o J. Simpson delights and hearing this because 619 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 1: she quote knew I wasn't black. She saw me as 620 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,840 Speaker 1: o J. Porter's outlook matched that of both the racist 621 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 1: white woman and the unspeakably racially deranged o J. I 622 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 1: wonder if jay Z was making a reference specifically to 623 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,239 Speaker 1: that incident in that documentary or if that was just 624 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,920 Speaker 1: some other known thing about o J that he was referencing. 625 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: And the last song is by a Long Island, New 626 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,439 Speaker 1: York rapper named all One. This song is called rush Hour, 627 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: and what makes this really cool is all One's a 628 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,919 Speaker 1: white guy and this song is about the first time 629 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: that he saw the movie Rush Hour, back when he 630 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,960 Speaker 1: was a kid, and he was geeking off of the 631 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 1: line where Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker were like, what's 632 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,800 Speaker 1: up my nigua and were calls going to school the 633 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,040 Speaker 1: next day and repeating it with his friends and a 634 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 1: black kid hearing it, and the incident that ensued afterwards. 635 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: It's a really interesting way to talk about approach the 636 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 1: subject matters. If I had said some crass expletive, I'd 637 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,040 Speaker 1: like to say, story for and Genuoue, I just asked 638 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,320 Speaker 1: if she could help to clarify or help me understand 639 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: the crime that I was called outside for. Meanwhile, he 640 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 1: just stopped and cried more. He repeated the story of 641 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,920 Speaker 1: the rush hour line, of course, the one with the 642 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,320 Speaker 1: end mystery. I still didn't get it, so I said this, 643 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,000 Speaker 1: and I timidly admitted that I had mimicked indiscriminately and 644 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,840 Speaker 1: no one else had exhibited misery. That's when they explained 645 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: this significance to me. Oh, I felt like a trotolosite 646 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 1: honest I apologize, which moderately mollified his melancholy solemn eyes 647 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 1: walked inside, locked my eyes on the hard tiled floor, 648 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,719 Speaker 1: shocked or bible stick and wonder how am my soft 649 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 1: and bright tongue could turn on me and do so 650 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 1: much hurt with one word and with the vein of ignorance. 651 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,680 Speaker 1: I tainted that little kid or exchange gave him his 652 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: first racist experience, and I wondered, decades later who it 653 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:04,280 Speaker 1: resonates across the years he's lived. That Damn what a narrative. 654 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,800 Speaker 1: You love a good narrative wrap, you know, there's so 655 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,879 Speaker 1: few and far between, and when they're well done, they're 656 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,479 Speaker 1: well fucked. I love that, Like I love how he's 657 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: he's definitely mastered his like spoken word sort of style, 658 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,640 Speaker 1: strong coffeehouse like spoken word, nive vibes. Yeah for real, 659 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,760 Speaker 1: like he yeah he he should be doing like woodstock 660 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 1: or some ship. But what do you? What do you like? 661 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,440 Speaker 1: What do you? How do you? Uh? What's your reaction 662 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,279 Speaker 1: to the subject matter of the song of the story 663 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,520 Speaker 1: was that kid? No? I totally understand, Yeah, that the 664 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,439 Speaker 1: racial insensitivity of people that for that are too young 665 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:43,080 Speaker 1: to understand the experience of the people who are unlike 666 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,799 Speaker 1: them can imagine feeling a different way about something than 667 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: they do because they're just emotional maturity is not yeah 668 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 1: you know they're twelve. Yeah, I mean we're fortunate. I 669 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: guess too, have had our main experiences with that word 670 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,879 Speaker 1: have been when we were really young, and it kind 671 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 1: of being in the you know, cruel ignorance of children 672 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: as opposed to how some other people deal it. I 673 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,799 Speaker 1: mean a mad Aubrey got called a digger right after 674 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,120 Speaker 1: he got shot, when he was laying on the ground bleeding. 675 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,080 Speaker 1: So perspective on everything, all right, So I thought we 676 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: got for this week. Yeah, we gotta close it off 677 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,399 Speaker 1: with the rapping like we always do. Right, that's gonna 678 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:34,760 Speaker 1: be going check check. Yeah. We wait in the reparations. 679 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:42,319 Speaker 1: We wait in the reparations though, so yeah, yeah, check it. Now. 680 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: You don't want to be my nemesis. This is what 681 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,000 Speaker 1: the premises. If you white, don't say the N word 682 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,120 Speaker 1: up in my premises, I would hate to whip your 683 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,680 Speaker 1: fucking ass like I'm the Genesis. Sorry, but I'm just 684 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,600 Speaker 1: old fashioned like the Genesis. If you want to say it, well, 685 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 1: you know there's a prerequisite. Make sure that your skin 686 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 1: is black at home, and you won't catch your brick 687 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,000 Speaker 1: stone to the full head. Not homie, we don't ever 688 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,319 Speaker 1: miss when my niggas break your wind shield. It's hard 689 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: to get it fixed and it ain't so unique, So 690 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,360 Speaker 1: what your motive be? Trump got white folks saying nigga 691 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,719 Speaker 1: for they go to sleep. They want to arrest me 692 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,400 Speaker 1: because my skin doc is nestle and I'm short like PESHI. 693 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,839 Speaker 1: I can't help it. I'm a nerd till I'm dead. 694 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,520 Speaker 1: I'm screaming in white folks like I heard what you said. 695 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 1: You niggas is too comfortable, be nervous. Instead, I'm making 696 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,840 Speaker 1: sure that you know that there's a word to regret. 697 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,200 Speaker 1: I'm running out of words in my head. I'm waiting 698 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,440 Speaker 1: for you. You gotta start. Let me get this second 699 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 1: and the second. No, I gotta keep me rolling. Probably, uh, 700 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,360 Speaker 1: if you say nigger around me, we're about to be 701 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,279 Speaker 1: ill in my fucker don't care if you army are 702 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 1: civilians about to come all up in your village and pillage. 703 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,680 Speaker 1: Motherfucker's know that I'd be spilling mad words because I 704 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,759 Speaker 1: got a crazy vocabulary. And if you don't like it, 705 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 1: can tuck your dictionary or go and tell the god 706 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 1: fairy godmother that you need another book cover on the 707 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,560 Speaker 1: textbook because I'm dropping knowledge. Motherfucker's know that I got 708 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,040 Speaker 1: it in my pocket. It's witten it all the time, 709 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,279 Speaker 1: like it's all locked up in my locket. I look 710 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,360 Speaker 1: at it so funny. Motherfucker's not that I'd be challenging 711 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:20,200 Speaker 1: these people to a comedy. Yeah, we are waiting on reparations. 712 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,719 Speaker 1: Hurry up, hr up, goddamn good night. Waiting on reparations 713 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 1: as a production of I Heart Radio. Listen to Waiting 714 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,160 Speaker 1: on Reparations on the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 715 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:32,640 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.