It’s 2015 and yes, we’re still talking about the N-word. That’s because people can’t get it through their heads that not everyone can say it. The rules seem to be pretty simple for most— Black people can say it if they choose to, white people can’t.
However, some still insist on using the word, like Madonna who referred to her son as such or Lindsay Lohan who thought it was okay to sneak it in a tweet.
Trinidad James has been getting a lot of heat for the word lately after a video came out showing the SAE fraternity house mother rapping the N-word along to his hit song, “All Gold Everything.” Trinidad said he wasn’t phased by the video, and actually gave her a pass for using the word.
Hit the flip and check out 10 other celebs who thought it was cool to give the N-Word pass.
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Rich Homie Quan not only gives out N-word passes to people rapping along to his songs, but he doesn’t even think racism still exists.
“It’s almost like cross-over music. I feel good. I don’t really look at nothing by it. It’s good. You make music so people can recite it and that’s what they’re doing, they’re reciting the song…I wouldn’t say racism is worse in the South because it was so hard in the South, I think people are very nice in the South now and don’t want to go back to those days. I’ve seen very little racism since I’ve been living.”
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Yeezy, who stays going on rants about racism in the fashion industry, somehow thought it was cool to let French designer Jean Touitou name his latest collection, “Last N*ggas in Paris”. Not only did Touitou say the word several times while presenting the collection, but he justified it later by saying he told Kanye about it beforehand and he loved the idea. Really ‘Ye?
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Styles P said he’s cool with his white friends saying the word around him, and even looks at them as n**gas.
“I consider a lot of white boys n**gas in my eyes. And not to be funny or anything, I call my white n**gas, n**gas. I think it just depends where you grew up, who you with, and your relationships with white people.”
Whoopi Goldberg gave Justin Bieber a pass on The View when video of him saying the word came out.
“You know, Canadian words — I’m going to say the word so get ready to beat me. N*gger doesn’t mean anything in Canada. And how do I know this? Well, I did a movie last year, in Canada, and a young, wonderful Canadian woman wrote it, and I’m reading it and I’m thinking, ‘We wouldn’t say anything like this.’ So I went to the director and I said, what is this? And he said, oh, she lives here. And I said so she doesn’t know anything, she doesn’t get what we’re talking about.”
“What I’m saying is that, when you are 15 and you’re someplace where that’s not a word that you have associated with people of color…they weren’t calling them that.”
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Schoolboy Q admitted that he encourages the white people at his concerts to rap the word.
“I’m not saying white people should just walk around like, “Aww my n*gga.” But white people come to my shows, they’re the reason I can wear these nice clothes. They’re the reason my daughter’s straight. So yea, you can say n*gga in my concert. It’s not meant in that way, we’re in here having fun, we’re chilling. As much as people have abused the word and where it really comes from, that sh*t can also bring people together. At my shows, black people see the white people be scared to say n*gga, then I tell them to say it. Then they’re all in the crowd together and I get in the crowd with them, and I’m a n*gga. I usually let people know it’s cool to say before my last two songs, and it makes my last two records electrifying. I see it. Everybody’s excited, they’re happy, like, This n*gga’s a down to earth n*gga. That’s TDE: f*ck your ethnicity. We’re not black, we’re not white, we’re not Asian. We’re just people here listening to music. You can say n*gga in front of me, I don’t care.”
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Gwyneth Paltrow once pulled a Lindsay Lohan and tweeted, “N**gas in Paris for real” while at the Watch The Throne concert in Paris. She received a lot of backlash, and Nas was one of many that defended her.
“I would slap the s*** out of somebody for Gwyneth Paltrow. She’s the homie, she’s cool. Gwyneth gets a pass. Real people get a pass. We know what this s*** is. We don’t interrupt Italians when they say ‘Wop’ to each other. They gonna punch you in the mouth if you interrupt that. Don’t interrupt us. We pick and choose.”
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Remember V-Nasty and The White Girl Mob? Probably not. But anyway, they thought it was okay to use the n-word and Fat Joe defended them. *Side eye*
“Unfortunately, the word started as a racist thing many, many, many, many, many years ago. We don’t view as that no more…How can we tell everybody ‘Hip Hop is for everybody?’ How can we really tell everybody, ‘If you white, Hip Hop is for you? If you Chinese, Hip Hop’s for you? If you f*ckin’ Arab, Hip Hop’s for you?’ We say ‘n*gga’ all day. They think that’s what’s cool. So, if they like, ‘Yo, what’s up my n*gga?’ Oh, sh*t. You a racist. You know they didn’t really mean it racist. You know [V-Nasty] ain’t tellin’ her ‘Yo, what’s up my n*gga’ racist. She’s sayin’, ‘What’s up my n*gga!'”
At the end of one of Drizzy’s hit songs, “Marvin’s Room”, one line definitely made it seem as if he’s cool with white people using the N-word.
“Just throw up while I hold your hair back, Her white friend said “you n*ggas crazy”. I hope no-one heard that
I hope no-one heard that. Cause if they did, we gon be in some trouble.”
Remember when John Mayer said the N-Word in an interview with Playboy? Russell Simmons felt he deserved a pass.
“He’s a nice guy. He don’t know. If you live in Beverly Hills, you might think there’s a post-racial society and the pain is gone. A lot of black people use that word, all the time — myself included — kind of as a way to ease the pain from it. You sort of forget that it even existed. We can do that. But when you see people outside of the community do that, it’s more hurtful. He didn’t mean anything by it. I give him a pass.”
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Not that J. Lo’s white, but she did get a lot of criticism back in the day when she said the word on her “I’m Real” track with Ja Rule. Ja spoke out about it, explaining why she gets a pass.
“It’s kind of an unwritten thing that Spanish and Puerto Ricans and n*ggas—We’re all kinda in the same family. So, it’s like why can’t she say ‘n*gga’? All my Spanish n*ggas I know say ‘n*gga.’ I never looked at them in any way and said ‘Yo, watch that.’ I think they were upset because they don’t see her as Jenny from the block, Jenny from The Bronx. They see her as this global icon. Matter of fact, some people probably see her as white. So, it’s just one of those things. And I think that’s why people were really upset. Because they don’t understand the dialogue that is used in our hoods. They don’t understand. That’s how Puerto Ricans, Spanish people speak. That’s how black people speak. And we are allowed to speak that way amongst each other…It’s different when somebody outside of your group says it. Then it becomes ‘Okay, well why are you saying [it]? Are you saying it because you think it’s cool?’ Just by not knowing makes it a problem.”
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