I would love a deeper look into regional cultures. Down south it's not accepted at ALL for any POC to say it regardless if you were raised within the culture.

we should stop saying it to further our maturity. its toxic and not helpful. never was no matter what rappers made it cool. we must realize that no other community does this.

If black people don’t respect themselves than why would other people respect them?

I dont know how this channel popped up in my algorithim, but I have been throughly engulfed in this channel

It drives me crazy to hear anyone let alone black people specify a non black person using n word with the “hard r”🙄 We have also made way to mainstream in our community. I hate hearing black people use it to each other so damn much

Loved this conversation! The intersections of media literacy, gatekeeping Black culture, the politics of racialization and wanting to be influential without responsibility for its consequences is masterful. It's absolutely about defining ourselves FOR ourselves outside of ⚪️ supremacy. I love it here folks 🫶🏾

WHY ARE PEOPLE NOT WATCHING THIS. HOW ARE THESE PODCASTS NOT VIRAL!? OMG!?

Well done to the producers. It’s shot and edited very well

We can't expect respect from other communities until we respect ourselves...and that starts with removing the most disrespectful word from our community vocabulary.

As a Polynesian, I hate the fact that some of my people feel entitled to use this word just because they grew up in close proximities w/ Black people. I too grew up around Black People but I know better. I do know that there are more Polynesian Gen-Z babies who are checking my generation on this topic so that’s good!

I love this channel. Talking about stuff that needs to be talked about

I wish we as a generation realized that a word that causes such pain cannot be reclaimed.

My head most definitely be on swivel! And it’s so annoying. I recently thought about how I haven’t been surrounding myself with non Black people and when I thought about why, it was because I got tired of anticipating them using the n word and then having to check them and explain why it’s not okay. Like it’s literally common sense and it’s so frustrating. Even worse that there are so many Black people who go about it with the “idc as long as it’s not to me” attitude smh

Honestly nobody should use it. Reclaimed slurs are still slurs to me.

The word black comes from negro (Spanish,Portuguese) which also gave rise to the N word. It was created by Caucasian slave traders and slave masters. For them white = everything good, black = everything bad. We are still using the title given to us by the slave masters. We are of African descent but we call ourselves and allow others to call us by a forced name. Chinese refuse to be called "yellow" and Native Americans refuse to be called "red". They are right to refuse these titles, it is racist. But we have been oppressed so long we can't see clearly.

I am a 60-ish Black man. I grew up in the "White" world. In a way, I feel sad that I cannot relate to any of this. I do not listen to modern rap music because I am sick of hearing the n-word. Every other word is the n-word. I can't talk to Black people because I get mighty offended by that damn n-word. I suspect many Blacks who grew up in "Black culture" think they are making that word their own but they can't. The White man created that word for us and for us to use it among ourselves is a form of self-hatred. I love Kendrick Lamar, but I can't listen to most of his stuff because it's all the n-word. I'd rather hear the music I grew up with: James Brown, Styx, Boston, The Beatles, The temptations. You NEVER hear the n-word from any of them! How in the hell do you expect White people and Latinos to stop using that word if we all keep using it? People get fired for using the n-word. Why are Black people using it?

No one should be saying dead and bury it mek it done

I don't like anyone to use the word....but that word is specific to the struggle of black americans....NOT everyone of the diaspora...so no, Puerto Rican, Dominican, etc cannot say it. I'm not good with it. Nope.

They should absolutely not

Black people are responsible for it. Whether it’s hard r or not, they use a variation of it all the time. They also call POC and white ppl the word too so it’s kinda surprising when they get upset that others use it.

It's never okay to say it unless it's okay for me to call you a trope

This podcast is everything the WORLD needs. Thank y’all 🗣️🙏🏽

I'm a black brit. Went on holiday to Turkey. Uk and US rap are big. Imagine my dismay to hear white Europeans saying niggaz and even attempting to call my son that. 😮

Stop saying it and lets get us taken seriously.

Great dialogue, input, and perspectives

Love This layered conversation✨

I'm a BIG country and rap music lover, and I can tell you that country music talk about the EXACT same things as rap/hiphop. Like he said, there's just a subtlety too it with WAY less profanity.

Back in the day, using the "n word" was seen as low - class behavior. I used to respect the fact that most Caribbean and African parents didn't allow their children to say it. Nowadays, they say it more the Black people.

OMG!! Is every episode like this and with these people? This is my first time seeing this channel and I LOVE IT❗❗ Intelligent, Articulate niggas talking about culturally relevant topics that MATTER 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 You just got a new subscriber 😍

I don’t understand! Why do POCs think it’s OK?

A great discussion. Thank you.

Ok NO to that last point, absolutely not 🙅🏾‍♀️ Nobody denied Rihanna of being a victim bc the proof was plastered all over the media left, right front, center, and ultimately on Chris Brown’s neck. That is not comparable to a situation where multiple people’s stories kept changing including Meg blatantly lying about even being involved with her so called abuser less any concrete evidence of who was responsible for that occurrence, which was all ultimately speculation over something only the people involved best understand - and even that’s shaky. That which you described exists but this wasn’t that - please stop smh.

I’m a blk British person and we don’t use that word like blk Americans do … I was once called white for telling a blk American to stop using that word as our ancestors were raped and beaten by slave masters who said this while committing these crimes. ITS NOT A WORD OF ENDEARMENT ITS DEGRADING!

I hate when y'all bring up certain topics without being accurate. The difference between cardi b and Nicki Minaj is only one of them have 2 VISIBLY BLACK parents while the other has none which would have been an great conversation about how white Latinos usually feel more bold to using the word because of how (Latino, Hispanic etc) are used as umbrella terms grouping them all together as one. There are people who still don't understand the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality. Also, could've spoken to having African ancestry does not make you black. We as African Americans don't have access to whiteness from being mixed tf up.

I remember my mom telling me back in the early 90's "son Hip Hop is bringing back the N word" Shout out the the camera crew & editor great job on how you cut these angles out when each panelist was talking

Powerful show.

This was dope!

I love this conversation, but I think one of the important parts folks glossed over is the WHY of the violence that exists so distinctly in hip hop. We can’t forget the legacy of slavery and racial violence that is so strong in this country, whose shadow is still so long. The ways Black folk have been brutalized here is so distinctive, in part because we live with our colonizers, in part because the British and English who took over here are shitty in a way specific and different than a lot of other places colonized by the Spanish and French. We can’t forget that hiphop was born out of an era where the government was literally pumping crack in our neighborhoods and executing us in the street; it has always been ok to be disgustingly violent to Black folks in America. THAT is what makes our music so special, in all the good and bad ways. We live in the most violent country in the world, and are subjected to daily violence as commonplace in a way that is not rare but is unique. These circumstances create an equation that gives us songs where Black folks who talk about murdering each other are the most uplifted by the system we live in. The oppressive American one that we’ve all lived under for centuries. It feels like folks forgot about that a little in the conversation.

love these conversations! I am a coloured from South Africa and we have a lot of the same identity issues as biracial people! It's so nice to see a different perspective

When we respect ourselves and our ancestors struggle as black people, other people will respect us. We can't force people to stop using the N word when we're using it daily and in music. I'm not buying the "term of endearment" because if it is now a positive word, then everyone would be able to use it without it creating animosity.

This is a good conversation starter. I think for Black music month which is in June should be a momth where music messaging is highlighted. However, the last few hip hop concerts I have been to most of the audiences are not Black. So, as Black ppl its hard to try and maintain control over something that our dollars don't primarily dominate. Next, violence is often targeted in hip hop, games like halo, t.v. shows or movies and even certain books, its not targeted and children play video games way more than listen to an artist nowadays.

Love the show. Thanks for these conversations. The only thing I would push back on is about the use of the word in Puerto Rico. It felt like Constanza conveyed its pervasive everywhere here. The majority of the island speaks spanish in their day to day. This is not a vocabulary word that fits into the conversation in any easy way. Now, AMERICANIZED Puerto Ricans who listen and grew up on hip hop or music where the word might be pervasive may use it in their spaces. No question about that. However, it is a small portion of the Island's demographic. I've mostly heard it from people who identify as Puerto Rican from the Bronx or who grew up in other parts of New York or the states. When I go back to my circles inside Puerto Rico where I was born and grew up in, we mostly communicate in spanish, and in my case many of them don't necessarily listen to hip hop, unlike my US counterparts. Reggaeton which is super popular for younger generations rarely uses the word at all as well. Again it's almost always sung in spanish. So I would definitely say It's mostly those who have grown up in the states and in english speaking communities where it is used. They travel here, and bring it to the circles they may spend time with if they are not code switching to speaking in spanish. Puerto Rico has its issues with blackness, and there are always exceptions, but I wouldn't say the use of the N-word is one of them. It's not a spanish word, and though we may be american citizens and listened to american music growing up, we're culturally very separate and distinct with different understanding and experiences on race which we can spend hours/days dissecting, but simply put the masses in PR do not use that word in common day to day conversation. It just doesn't happen.

My kids couldn't listen nor could they watch award shows. Now that they are older they listen to it and I never stopped listening. Being their mother I needed them to understand the difference in valued music versus non- valued music. I needed them to learn the art of music when they were ready to learn it.

I love this conversation

Opinions are not facts and only facts lead to constructive results scientifically and technologically.

Gen X here, hip hop and rap was better when no one could curse in music, it’s unfortunate how prolific and acceptable it’s become to inflict pain and trauma upon ourselves. This needs to end completely not just in music. Great topic and conversation.

I think the n-word shouldn’t be used at all by anyone including Black people. In the past Black people fought SO hard for that word not to be used. However it’s ok for Black people among themselves to use it, since it was used towards them in the past. I spoke to a 95 year old Black lady and she thought it was sad and frustrating, because of that. You keep using the word you just broke the work that Black people in the past tried so hard to do. You’re not helping by saying oh it’s ok to use, because we’re black. NO. I don’t care if it change to adding the “a” at the end. People aren’t stupid. They know what word you’re saying. A Hispanic person literally said you’re either black or white. It’s ok if someone of color to ok the word. Also if you’re biracial? Oh you can’t use it because you’re not really black. You don’t look black enough.

Why is anyone. You’re just degrading yourself. This word isn’t in my vocabulary and not in a lot of the music I listen to. Our community is so so damaged.

For the final time HIP HOP didnt start with Puerto Ricans at all. It is puerly A FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICAN CREATION.

I want black people to stop saying the word I'm general. It sounds ignorant and we as a people need to move away from it. I don't sew Jewish people or Latino people out here calling each other by a slur. Honestly, we look dumb as a people. What have we gained from using it? How has it served us? What good does it do? Doesn't make sense.

STOP SAYING AND USING THE N WORD I REPEAT ALL PEOPLE NEED TO STOP SAYING AND USING THE N WORD PERIOD NO IFS ANDS OR BUTS END OF DISCUSSION

🎉😢ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! The word needs to die ☠️

Thank God for Juice Pierce for recalibrating the narrative about rap and hip hop being the only genre of music portraying women in a negative light and preaching violence !!!! This young woman in burgundy is expressing quite a flagrant confirmation bias.... because the number of salsa songs and country songs that are despicable towards women and promote infidelity isn't to be ignored!!!! There is a lot of Afrobeat or Jamaican songs that would prove her wrong!

African music we do not talk about violence in music it’s supposed to be about bringing joy through our music Women are not debased or disrespected or called names In Afro music

Is anyone arguing for the right to say “bike” with w a K? I THINK NOT. Are we bringing the justification to the kindergarten level? This perpetual conversation ALLOWS people to find LOOPHOLES. It’s exhausting. No other slurs get this much equivocation.

I wish they each would have said a positive artist they like. The conversation is important but in these platforms, especially when talking about music. They can really highlight other socially conscious artist. One of my favorites is Little Simz

"Black folks, we have been on a path of acquiring power" oooof. Idk how to deal with that

I do not allow the N word in my house. My kids probably say it among their friends. I did the same when I was younger. I don't like the word.

The N word isn’t the be all and end all of racism. If no rapper ever said it again and no rap fan ever said it again it wouldn’t change anything on a real scale

Music doesn’t effect behavior however studies show it can impact your emotions on a physiological level at that…

Simple really, if you want to take the power away from the N word, simply don’t say it. Promoting it in our music is not empowerment, it’s a contradiction that opens the door to disrespect from other communities that follow our culture. Remember RnB and Hiphop is now Pop, so we should have a zero tolerance policy regarding b***h and n***a as all it does is confuse and send out mixed signals to the wider public. If we don’t respect ourselves how can others respect us?

Rap is popular in the English tongue. I suggest swapping the European slur for blackness for an African-rooted insult if feasible?! Assuming a Euro-based island language and telling the developer's heirs not to use their cultural wealth, i.e., language, as they see fit is bold. Moving content 👍🏾

This is the second time that I have come to watch this show, and once again I find it ponderous and somewhat depressing. The topics deserved to be talked about, but the backdrop in which they have been placed, only serves to make this a more morose experience. Who chose the backdrop and why, is it a reflection of our heritage or was it the only thing that was still available at the local car boot sale. Can we please try to uplift the spirit with a brighter ambience where the jungle is not a feature and people on the show are not devoured by the depressing environment that you have sought to keep them in?

Thank God I don't live around people who are obsessed with race. I don't know anyone who uses the N word and I would never use it. These comments are giving me a headache. Im out.

1. words should never be answered with physical violence. 2. I think we have given too much power to a word. I wish we could drop the phrase “the N word” because it has given people the idea that any non-black person who says the word, regardless of the context, should loose their job. 3. We have no right to demand that others can’t use the word if we use it. The word being used in music and played in public spaces means that we should expect that others are going to use the word. I didn’t always feel this way. I came up before the phrase “the N word” came into existence. I grew up in a black family that did not use the word and I always abhorred it. It has taken me several decades to see the damage caused by replacing the word with a phrase, and in giving the word too much power. It was only a few years ago that I have changed my way of thinking. After hearing a white guy complain about going to a construction site and hearing the word blasting from a boom box, and feeling that there was a double standard that only some can use the word, I was at first deeply offended. I couldn’t understand why he would want to say the word in the first place. It took me a few days but I later saw his point. If its so taboo, NO ONE gets to say it. It then shouldn’t be allowed in public spaces. But since it is played in public spaces, let’s not loose our minds if others say it. We can’t be that special that we get to say what others can’t.

In short, no. We should not be using it.

Why dont they talk about the use of the word in video games?

And also I’d say that we need to also consider the artist who is making the music when a lot of artists especially artists from the United States of America make music and they’re putting the N-word in their music are we not aware that these people are international artists not only are they going to states within the United States that are predominantly of people of European ancestry they go to European countries and perform these songs. we would all have to be smoking crack if we think that these artists are stopping their sets and telling their entire white audience that they cannot say the N-word why they are putting on a performance because that’s not happening so at the end of the day if we do not want other people saying the N-word, then we should not be supporting music that says it or artist. Because I don’t know any Jewish artist who goes out of their way to say the K word in their music so that other groups and other people when they travel internationally, repeat that word, and then it becomes normalized that everyone can say it.

The only group I knew growing up saying nigga was people from mainly nyc the four Burroughs. Other then that no other group whether you’re black or not from any other part of the world grew up, saying the word nigga. So culturally if we want to tell people who grow up from New York City that are not supposedly black that they can’t say the N-word then I would also say that Africans from Africa who didn’t grow up, saying the N-word shouldn’t be saying it either because culturally it’s not of your culture to say that word and it wasn’t until you came here that many of you now identify with the black struggle and using the word nigga cause these cultural things are not common back in your homes.

As a black person who grew up in the hood around all different races who all said the word it wasn’t a problem. It wasn’t a problem until social media and people who aren’t from these neighborhoods came along and started voicing their opinions about what’s being said in neighborhoods that they’re not from. They’re the ones causing a divide where there wasn’t one. No one from these different hoods cared who said it.

Not they shouldn’t why is this even a discussion?

No. The simply dehumanizes, regardless of the speaker, fyi.

No.

On the subject of gangsta hip hop, you can't police what someone sings about, but criminal drug use and violence shouldn't play on stations available to children anymore than porn should. I disagree that hip hop is about crime or even needs to mention it.

Is it the weight of the word or the weight of the history that bothers you?

I strongly dislike the word

The answer to this question is no

The N-Word is about American blackness; it was created in America to be a segregating name. It is still a segregating word to this day. However, the word has two meanings. If you're identifying and born Black, it means "you're like me" because no matter how we intend the word, it applies equally. On the other hand, if you're not Black, it's an insult that means "you're not one of us", because no matter how it's intended it can only be applied unequally.

Nope

We should see what it’s like not saying it anymore. At least try

Nas definitely doesn’t say the N word on his first or his last album 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Neither does common 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I different but the same never sounded so good.

Latino is not a race! Most Latinos are a mix of Native Americans, European and sub Saharan Africans and depending on which country they are from, there are varying degrees of mix of those races genotypicaly. Example, the average Mexican is 3 to 6% Sub Saharan African and Tropical Latinos have higher African ancestry. Basically multigeneration Mulattoes with a little Taino ancestry.

This cohost is..... 😬 I'on know.

THERE'S BLACK PUERTO RICANS 🇵🇷 PUERTO RICAN AINT A RACE LATINO AINT A RACE YOU CAN BE ANY RACE AND BE LATINO NOBODY EXPLAINED THAT IN THE VIDEO

But in anger I’ve heard plenty of blacks people call non blacks the n word

So this the grapevine with a light skin host colorism is weird

This needs a much more complex discussion. Africans and all black peoples who are not African Americans have no right using the n word. It’s much a racial thing as a cultural thing too.

Am I the only person who thinks the term 'People of colour' is racist as it adhears to a white supremecist ideology in that white is the default and everything else is 'coloured' if we live in an world where dark skin was the norm then 'whiteness' would be the person of colour. Have said that, the 'N' word is so problematic because it shouldn't be used by anyone unless they are racist or a self hating, uneducated person of African origin also, you can't reclaim a word that was never ours, it was created by ignorant, racist white people and imposed on us to strip us of our humanity and it's working, doing it's job to this day. Just my opinion

Rihanna & CB’s situation is no where close to Meg’s situation. If these two events happened around the same time then maybe you’d have an argument. But these situations are literally over a decade apart & one had clear evidence while “the truth” is still coming out after three years for one situation 🫠

If you're not black, then don't say it to me. If you do there will be consequences

@lizabetx483 You sound redundant. You don't know where nigga came from. It didn't come from negro. It came from niiji. Aka my niiji aka my nigga. Africans are kind lost and the people who say they are african descent. *the word ‘Africa’ was first used by the Romans to describe that part of the Carthaginian Empire which lies in present day Tunisia. When the Romans conquered Carthage in the second century BCE, giving them jurisdiction over most of North Africa

Specifically African American/Black American are the only ones that should have say in this conversation though.

Look up original definition... says "liar and thief, lowlife"... nothing about race or color... just "liar and thief, lowlife"... racists use it in ALL other context... free speech, right?.. lol...

Tbh, The N word is usually used in a negative context. Yes, we do say “my 🥷🏾” but usually it’s used to describe them in a negative way. “🥷🏾 ain’t 💩” “ I can’t stand 🥷🏾’s” “where you 🥷🏾’s from?” Etc. Just pay attention to it more. You will hear that it is usually used negatively. So, no. We shouldn’t even be saying it yet alone other POC.

Why is this such as an debate. If you dont identify as black on any paperwork why are you saying the n word why???? People wanna be black when its time to be black. Im tired of it. Everyone (yes them too) should stop saying the n word.

None of you who are not FBA should be saying it. Why do you desire to say it. Very weird especially africans and Latinos.

Not sure if anyone has touched on this, but I hear folks saying "this hood" and "that hood". I have never seen a cotton field in whatever hood you are speaking of. What about all the Black folks in rural areas of especielly the south? Furtermore, I dont believe East Coast and West Coast artists should have laid clain to the "N" word in their music unless they were from somwhere like Virginia or South Carolina. Texas slaves didnt get word that they were free until 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was inked. I mean if we are gonna discuss who can lay claim to the "N" word, lets also talk about why Black Freedom isnt celebrated December 6th everywhere instead of Juneteenth where it should only be in Texas. For a country boy like me, the word ni#@a or ni#@er hits different regardless of where I hear it and who I hear it from. It has not changed much in a lot of southern small towns, because now the white girls have bought into the Black Culture. Mixed babies all over the south, and the white people hate it with a passion.