Just curious. When did rappers start using the n word in their music?

I don’t like it, and I don’t use it. I don’t hear it among middle class friends unless they’re playing at being hoodrats. It was a mistake for rappers to use their influence in such a self-defeating way, because even they don’t want white people using the term—hypocritical—since it was their term for us, not ours.

So my understanding is incomplete. It was really popularized through the rise of gangsta rap bands like NWA (literally n*** with attitudes). The use was super deliberate and political and defiant. Claiming a linguistic weapon used against you as something you own now which frankly is pretty common across a lot of groups.

And I dunno when this happens but 80s-90s you see the word become more normalized in black communities as a sort of term of community and fraternity and just a part of the culture while simultaneously still being one of the most hateful things a non-black person can say. You're gonna hear Snoop say it a million times because the dude has established a flow and patter over literal decades now and it's just a part of what works for him.

The politics of language is weird.

Dunno when they started. Rappers are counterculture, and are therefore much more willing to violate normal social rules.

I've heard it being used sometimes as a term of fellowship or affection (the n-word ending in A not R) if said by members of the black community. Since Snoop is a black guy himself I can see why it's generally accepted.

{@piecingbabyfacetogether] the n word is not a nice word to be used as an expression and black people using it should be ashamed. as if it was used as an insult against there race or colour of there skin there would be uproar over it

Self degrading, whatever color you are.

Probably sometime in the 90s. pretty sure I heard snoop say it at least 50 times just in one song. But..... Snoop got millions and millions so he dont give a damn who likes it and who doesnt.

When did rappers start rapping

Nwa was formed in idk 1986

About 30 or 40 years ago. Never heard of NWA?

At least since the early 90’s 🤔
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