Fox Execs: Yeah thanks Nas. Do let us know when you can put out a record sans ngr references. Well not so much “references” as a crucial, invariable ingredient.

I have that album, haven’t listened to it yet, don’t need to. Not when 2 track titles feature the word.

There’s a lot of nuanced points that could be made here for and against hip-hop artists speaking out on racism. It’s a little late and I’m a little pissed so I can’t be bothered with any of them. Here’s this though…

That’s his art form. This is your art form Spencer. Except let’s say you don’t write nat sec, but about Jewish social issues instead. Now, I don’t exactly know what you’d be called if you couldn’t do that without dropping the equivalent Jewish racial slurs as frequently as if they were punctuation, but lets agree your standing on race relations would have varied from where it is now, significantly and negatively, by any objective measure.

Now, like everyone else on the planet, you would *still* be able to take time out to Fox news for using charged racial references, as they are reprehensible media organisation who clearly doess that…. but you would still be that guy while doing it.

I’m reminded of a Dave Chappelle skit about jury selection for OJ’s trial talking about the racist cop. “Trust me, as someone who says ngr a lot, that ngr says ngr all the time”.

But obviously context matters. There’s no equivalency between when Mark Furman and Dave Chappelle use the word. You really should listen to [Untitled] for an extensive meditation on all of this.

No there’s not. One’s an insult stemmed in racism and the other’s a product. Same as Fox vs Nas.
Put it another way, McDonalds can chime in on telling off parents about their child’s obesity. They absolutely can and their criticisms will be as absolutely valid as anyone else’s when they do. Still…. 3 kazillion served.