You're assuming bad faith about her calling her a piece of shit, which is wrong. It's reasonable to assume that she felt she was expecting to sing the words as Kendrick had wrote them. There was no bad intention. This isn't about using the word in everyday conversation. Personally, I wouldn't use half the words in the song in normal conversation or reciting the lyrics myself, but I can't blame her if she assumed she was simply expected to sing it as it was written.
Most people in the thread are on the same page as you. There's just a couple of people who really want to defend white people's right to drop n-bombs for some reason.
Dude this is like, the beginning of the track:
Yeah it definitely opens up a needed discussion on the subject. I could see both viewpoints/sides.
I guess expecting white people to use common sense with saying nigga in public is too much to ask. Instead we get a whinge fest whenever someone does it and gets called out on it. Like it's the worst thing in the world for them to censor themselves.
Also a couple of people who want us to know what a moron and piece of shit she is.
I edited my post before seeing yours. I'm not saying it's bad that he did it, but if you think he didn't know what he was doing with this track specifically I don't know what to tell you. So she was invited on stage to not really rap along then. Ok. Half of the damn start is basically not ok for her to say, why invite her on stage lol.I guess expecting white people to use common sense with saying nigga in public is too much to ask. Instead we get a whinge fest whenever someone does it and gets called out on it. Like it's the worst thing in the world for them to censor themselves.
As much as it sucks, I do think there's still confusion and needed discussion about it still being wrong to use of the word when it comes to songs and lyrics. That's why I considered this story to be a good lesson.
Out of the 25 words in that verse, she only has to skip 4. This isn't some Herculean task. Especially when it comes at the end of the line
That or do a different song. He has other songs that don't drop the word as much. It was used as an opportunity to educate at least so there is that.
Can't blame her cause the word is in the lyrics, quite a lot of times as well it seems. So no, we can't blame her. A fan (hard to believe I know), finally gets on stage with her big idol and can sing HIS song with him.
So she's like a walking MTV video then? Man that sounds like fun. That's why I go to concerts. The "my" doesn't make much sense either when the word isn't included. Actually scrap that. The way the word is emphazised there repeatedly is a rhyming technique and makes leaving it out sound like shit.
Earlier you basically stated people who say he knew what was going to happen are wrong. That's why I responded to you.
I think it's best if people such as yourself, stopped viewing rappers as being the arbiters of blackness. It may come as a shock to you, but what rappers do and say aren't representative of all black people.
She does skip one "nigga" at first though in the clip? But says the second one. So to me it seems she knows it's not cool and she tried to avoid it, but then slipped on the second for whatever reason.
We can actually, no one forced her or asked her to sing the song verbatim. Take responsibility for your own actions
Indeed. It is very hard to argue that there is a racist intent or connotation with a fan singing a song by a black musician that contains the word without removing it. Of course, singing "nigger" is not abstaining it from being racist altogether, you could, for instance, sing a song by a racist band and then it being part of the song can hardly be an excuse. But overall the sensibility that the word may be used very freely in art by the group it has been used against but needs to be censored out by other groups does not appear to be rational to me and I feel Kendrick's reaction here was rather pity, considering it was a devout fan (obviously) who was certainly, by singing the song as written originally, not intending to hurt anyone.
Agreed. I get why he did it, and it wasn't bad that he did it, but people who say he wasn't planning this are kidding themselves.
But you don't seem to give a shit what certain black people think about it's usage if they disagree with you.
Man you really are some quality poster aren't you.
Not sure about that, but they do seem like a bigger shitstain than the girl in the video atleast. That's kinda funny, trying so hard to act good and righteous that you just make yourself look really bad.
But I actually don't even know which side you fall on because your entire argument is an out of context picture. Is that dude the bad guy or the good guy in your eyes?Already posted but I might as well do it again to drive the point since it clearly hasn't sunk in.
Where did I mention anything about how black people feel about its usage?
