“Who be ridin' up in the highrise elevator other tenants who be prayin' they ain't the new neighbor? Mr Nigga. Nigga nigga.” - Mos Def
My name is Dante and I don't use the n-word. Its been coming up a lot lately because of that terribly overrated ass film Django Unchained. Now, when I was little not that many people said the n-word. Only aggressive hobos, ignorant old Black men or that 'hood ass woman that was just mad at the world because she was a 32 year old grandmother. It wasn't peppered throughout my childhood. Maybe its a locational (not a real word) thing. I grew up in South Central Los Angeles and you'd think that I wouldn't have been able to step three feet without hearing it but I didn't.
Nowadays even little kids run around saying that shit. Its just a part of folks vocabulary. It just never caught on with me. When I hear people say it my brain skips. In songs I hear it all the time and there are only a few words that rhyme with it. Words like trigger, figure, and bigger. What's funny is when almost all rappers are asked who the best rapper alive is they say Eminem, a White rapper who I personally have never heard use the n-word.
