The Faceless Master
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verdict: not guilty
Mark of the Nigga is a great game.
You realize this sounds like "My right to correctly sing the lyrics to a song out loud supercede your right not to have friends use racial slurs around you," right?
I don't know if you actually mean that - but that's what it reads like.
I wrote an essay about this once a few years ago:
"A White Person's Guide to the Proper Usage of Their Brand New Ghetto Pass."
It's a weird, awkward subject to be sure, with no real set answer. The shit is situational, really, and depends on your level of friendship and trust. Especially considering the stakes (can I sing this out loud in front of people) are relatively low.
Her About me quote is from a rap song as well
"im a dime. best top of the line. cute face slim waist with a BIG behind."
What is she on about though, she doesn't have a big ass.
Rap legend
Say whatever you want but I also reserve the right to also throw around whatever word casually.
Anything goes.
While reading this thread, all I can think about it, "Everybody wanna be black but nobody wanna be black."
it aint easy being white
YeahLol Paul Mooney ?
No I'm not saying its OK if your friend is offended and asked you not to say it in front of them(as someone stated before in a cool headed manner) but threatening a friend with physical violence for saying it during a song in karaoke is ridiculous. Can it be avoided sure and maybe it should be but it should never promote a violent reaction given the context.
My cracka!
Very. I don't say it but I also don't think every time its said it should start a fight.I get you, and as CornBurrito pointed out, the opposite of my take would be "People with a certain skin color should not be allowed to recite song lyrics because I cannot determine the difference between reciting song lyrics and actual racism."
I guess it's just - it's such a low-stakes victory to claim, (I get to sing a song out loud in front of you that says words I otherwise would never say) that the potential problems it could raise seems to be way more trouble than its worth.
Sure, should the word be defanged/depowered? Of course. Will it be? probably not in our lifetimes. So again, it comes down to courtesy/balance/trust in whatever your friendship is. It's situational.
Yup.it's only ever as awkward as you make it.
You know what you can and can't say.
People like to split atoms to parse the why's and why nots for things like this...and many of the people who do this - in my experience anyway - are the kind of people who would say these words anyway.
Anyway, live and let live.
Mark of the Nigga is a great game.
I just tell my friends not to say the N word around me if it's present in the song. They can rap all the want, but you better censor it unless you want to deal with the checking that will sure as hell follow.
Genius sketch
This is more appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ
I feel like anyone that cares about this and makes a big deal out of it when they hear it is a bigger part of the problem than they would like to believe.
I feel like anyone that cares about this and makes a big deal out of it when they hear it is a bigger part of the problem than they would like to believe.
Katy Perry did a cover of Kanye's and Jay-Z's "Niggas in Paris
The only thing about that was that it sucked.
Katy Perry did a cover of Kanye's and Jay-Z's "Niggas in Paris
not a fan, stick to what you're good at. or kinda good at
I feel like anyone that cares about this and makes a big deal out of it when they hear it is a bigger part of the problem than they would like to believe.
not black, but the word is annoying to hear no matter who uses it.
i work/go to school in nyc, so i hear it from everywhere. it's just annoying to listen to, especially at work.
My "black friends" don't have a problem other people using it, but it irks that they let it go like it's nothing.