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thesynthesis;3050170 said:just listened to the Nas song and that is a big reach, Nas was basically saying that everyones roots go back to Africa, so all the white folk that called him a "N" are themselves the same
anyways lets get back Uncle Jay...his stans have tried to gets slick, so i went back to his interview with Oprah and the issue of white people using nigga came up
Oprah: I was once at a Jay-Z concert, and there was a moment when everybody—including white people—was screaming the N word. I gotta tell you, it didn't make me feel good.
Jay-Z: That's understandable.
Oprah: But it didn't seem to affect you. You were having a good time up there onstage.
Jay-Z: I believe that a speaker's intention is what gives a word its power. And if we eliminate the N word, other words would just take its place.
The "speaker" being white, black, chinese , arab, so yes Jay is condoning the use of the word NIGGA as long as it's not said with malice...
Damn!, so Jay really is a coon.
bchuck;3051232 said:Seems like a lot of jay hate and reaching going on here. The interview was talking about rappers using the N word, and the Imus issue. As far as his comments to Oprah, wouldn't any rapper be guilty of this? I've been to plenty of concerts and no rapper has ever jumped off the stage and stopped a concert because white ppl were reciting his lyrics and happened to say "nigga."
If niggas and rappers wouldn't have made it "cool" to use the word, then they wouldn't have to worry about white people using it. The word isn't taboo anymore when it's in constant rotation in every fuckin song on every hip hop album released. Now I won't let somebody of another race come up to me and say "what's up nigga," but if i hear two people on the streets talking or reciting lyrics, i'm not gonna let it upset me in the least. Now the word NIGGER is a big big big difference.
We never made it cool to say the word, it's just everything we (black people) do is cool to white people. And yes the word is taboo for white people to say around black people, and it will always be that way.
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