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

@bijouxbroussard I totally agree and understand your point. I would be uncomfortable too.

@LvChrisNo, I don’t. But it is a factor, unfortunately. Just like it is among any group of people, and it’s not necessarily about money, either.

Question: Why don’t people ever use the term "Poor Black Trash" ?
Answer: They believe it’s redundant.

@LvChris Meaning, some of these folks aren’t poor. Money doesn’t care who owns it. And the media loves hyping ignorance, especially if it supports popular stereotypes.

But explain this to me—how is it that white people can talk about "ignorant, inbred, backwoods trailer park dwellers" which they do often, and nobody accuses them of hating poor people ? Kanye is one of the biggest fools out there—and he’s hardly poor. But he is low-class.

@LvChris Note the quotes meaning, these are not my words, but those I’ve observed by others.
I’m not going to continue this, because you’re determined to misunderstand what I’m saying.

@LvChris Now you’re being condescending. That is you doing you, clearly. 😞

@LvChris I don’t look down on anyone. But I understand the realities where I live. And I thought it was safe to speak of it honestly. It isn’t. You’re seeing what you want to see here.

@bijouxbroussard Rappers used it, black comedians used it, for a time it was co-oped by some white rockers and artists to refer to the oppressed of ANY color.

@ChipmunkErnie I’m glad that the latter seem to have stopped, at least.

@LvChris So as a non-black person (I’m guessing) you feel you get to dictate what I say about my experiences of my community. My feelings were actually hurt initially, but I guess you had unfriended me some time ago, so it’s not really even worth a block. 😔

@LvChris Ah. Nothing really lost, then.

@bijouxbroussard "white trash" do in fact sometimes have money, or at least live beyond their means for as long as they can

@bijouxbroussard it is particularly weird to hear the word borrowed in French hip hop, when the majority of the lyrics or samples are in French ... it is like it is deemed an essential part of the formula

I have also heard it outside of a music or young person context entirely too, which was strange ... like back in the 90s I sometimes heard OLDER (and certainly not "gangsta") Black people greeting each other with the term, which I did not understand

I can understand to a degree trying to take someone else's perjorative term and try to defiantly make it your own but I don't think it really works ... like I have seen a photo of the rear end of a Mustang whose owner is ostensibly a jackass who likes to drive around everywhere revving it loudly so no one can hear anything else ... and the car's vanity plate reads "SMALL PP" or something like that

@SW-User I don’t doubt it. I’ve heard the term applied to Donald Trump, after all.

@SW-User Men, no doubt. (I still don’t see women doing that) I saw a few guys my age sagging their pants and wondered what was wrong with them. Possibly a misguided attempt to be "hip" because rappers were doing it. Bill Maher used the word quoting somebody and got taken to task by a well-known rapper (Snoop ? Ice T ?) who told him, "that’s our word now, you don’t get to use it." Sorry, but white supremacists from here to Stormfront.com to Twitter (nowadays) did not get that memo. 😳

@bijouxbroussard yep, it was men when it happened, and it made me uncomfortable


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