That was the title of a really good album. Did you actually listen to the track? One of his best songs in years. And I see nothing wrong with someone expressing his anger towards those who are trying to literally kill us.
Yeah, the title is kind of the problem.:smt078 It was a trip listening to his clown ass trying to rationalize to people who can speak in sentences why he chose to call his album 'nigger'. You would think Nas was the first BM to ever set foot in America. Get a grip. When a BM with alleged artistic talent has to use the N-word to get attention for his work, he might need to find a different line of work. Same shit as Kanye using stars and bars shock value to sell merchandise. Nas is really defending ignorance when he tries to rationalize the use of 'nigger' in the Black community. You can't take away the power of the word until racism ceases to exist. Good luck with that, street disciple.:smt020 http://www.mtv.com/news/1572287/nas...bum-title-denies-reports-of-label-opposition/
How many people do you think wrote Nas off because of the stupid name for an album and never bothered to indulge his artistic ego?? Again, it was a dumb name to attach to a track, then we have to listen to him try to say he was coming at it with some higher message. Like Nas discovered racism and is the first one to bring it to the masses. You can trace the dip in Nas' career to 2007 and the release of that album. Kanye and Nas look ignorant trying to prop up the Confederate flag and the N-word as something redeemable. But hey, the Nazis constructed one of the world's greatest highways and built the Volkswagen, so I guess they deserve a gold star too. This still has to be one of the most idiotic photo ops in hiphop history.
I lived in a town that has a an annual re-enactment. It was the battle of Olustee. It was one of the few battles that the Confederate army had won. Each year civil war 're-enactors from all over the country come to Lake City, Florida to take part. They play their parts to the hilt on and off the battlefield. The town has a parade for the re-enactors as they march or ride on horseback. The Confederates ride or march in first and the Union army followed accompanied by boosting and other less respectful outbursts. The Union re-enactors sometimes felt the resentment. Battlefield sites are memorials to that struggle. I felt that the Confederate flag belonged at that battlefield and other historical sites dedicated to the Civil War. The scariest event occurred when the KKK came to town and paid to use the Olustee Battlefield as a rallying point to support David Duke and recruit new members.Having lived in that town for nearly seven years, I got used to seeing the flag and had no issues with it.
Much like the President used the word yesterday to express the dark history and prevalence of racism in this country. Some people could argue (and have) that he didn't have to, that it was just for attention, but l think he said it out of frustration and to make his point heard. I don't like NAS's choice to wear shirts emblazoned with the word, but l don't see Kanye calling out the history of the flag...compare it to NAS's lyrics http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nas/niggertheslaveandthemaster.html
"Shock after CNN host Don Lemon holds up a huge n-word sign on live TV" "He was responding to President Obama's comment and the Flag controversy. Some viewers slammed the host's 'stunt' online and created memes of him" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...N-word-sign-live-TV-asks-Does-offend-you.html
Why didn't Don Lemon hold up a sign that said 'Faggot'....? He's gay and i'm sure he doesn't like that word.
I have no problem honoring those who lost their lives in the horrific battles of the Civil War. There's a futility to war no matter which side has the moral high ground. But the fact we honor the losers in a war the way we do the Confederacy is silly. However battle sites where hundreds if not thousands died on both sides should IMO be honored.
General Robert E. Lee is probably the most studied general in history because he was very tenacious and a better general than Ulysses S. Grant. The Civil War was the only war that was fought in West Point. Every officer attended West Point. Instructors in cannonry, cavalry riding, strategy and etc , was from West Point.
Does anyone feel like the mass media is spinning the issue so vigorously that we can't keep focused on the core issue of enduring racism and the unwillingness to recognize it?
The current news story is Obama's use of the n-word, the CNN anchor holding it up on a card, the flag and whether or not it will be displayed/sold/whatever...the victims and enduring racism have receded into the background.
