Commentary from AZ, Immortal Technique and others. I appreciated the balanced approach. The mention of Reverend Al Sharpton’s use of the word towards his Latino friends was interesting. via
The N-Word Is Flourishing Among Generation Hip-Hop Latinos
Why should we care now?“Yo, my nigga, that nigga’s crazy,” declares a young Dominican guy in his late teens, early twenties. “Yeah, my nigga, that nigga was buggin’ last night, my nigga,” responds another hermano. Chatter like this floated in the air like the whiff of days-old garbage smoldering in the heat while I took my frequent summer jaunts along Vermilyea Avenue way uptown in Inwood, with my 11-year-old daughter in tow.
Initially, you’d find mostly Caribbean Latinos dropping n-bombs into rap lyrics—”Pigs,” off Cypress Hill’s classic self-titled 1991 debut, is just one example—but nearly two decades later, the profusion of the word into the New York City Latino vocabulary is reaching an almost caricaturist quality.
related posts i wish i hadn’t written:
You Despise Racism? That’s Unpossible!
Racism Is Racism, My Niggas
