I used to be a huge fan. His music had meaning and inspired me back then. He has been slowly losing it since hanging out with Jay Z and now his dating that one white woman SMDH.
yo. i actually think these stream of comments (and the framing of the article) are more concerning than kanye’s thought process. why are black people so quick to pathologize each other? as the poet saul williams has pointed out the word nigger/nigga/niger has a long life — one that has spanned meaning from rock to god. he wrote a whole poem call NGH WHT? (in The Dead MC Scrolls) that is 33 something chapters — with the poem even produced as an album with the accompaniment of a symphony — considering the potency and complexity of its usage that goes far beyond the “its internalized negative image” arguments that are forwarded as “conscious.” real talk, being a “conscious” black person shouldn’t be about pathologizing other black folk, i.e “they need help.” 1. we need to get beyond the positive/negative dualism and have some more creativity, ingenuity, reflection, intensity and purpose to our thought process — also lets historicize, politicize and think about the larger structures which inform black life, black culture, black expression (lets look at the long long history that pits and produces black folks against one another as — the negative against positive, the proper vs. the improper, the classed vs. the classless black folks — scholars such as Grace Hong (The Ruptures of American Capital — in her reading of black “excess” as funk) and Roderick Ferguson (“Of Our Normative Strivings” and Aberrations in Black) write about the violence of producing “normative” and “proper” blackness) 2. i actually think kanye is onto something about nigga and bitch being “potent” rather than positive and negative… i’m just sayin ya’ll
I’m a bit disappointed that the comments section seems more concerned with speculating on Kanye’s mental condition than having a discussion about the word b*tch and it’s use. Recently my cousin (in his 20′s) called his sister (not yet 10) a b*tch because she refused to go to bed. I had to pull him up on that, but I can’t deny, it’s just become too common. It’s almost like the shorthand for girl or woman and I’m not ready to accept that as normal.
I removed myself from this slippery – and not always open, honest, and sincere – conversation a long time ago never to return. But the fact that a 30 plus year old man, in trying to act profound, is now only asking himself these questions despite all of the conversation in the world around him shows once again that the word “genius” was incorrectly applied to another dodo.
I mean I’m not American but I visit often for school related work. I do listen to rap and I always thought that the use of those two words were more offensive than terms of endearment. It’s just not normal to use such disparaging words where I live. How did the African American culture or the rap/hip hop culture came to be? I always wondered.
What’s wrong with this guy?
I used to be a huge fan. His music had meaning and inspired me back then. He has been slowly losing it since hanging out with Jay Z and now his dating that one white woman SMDH.
From Jesus walks to runaway :(
yo. i actually think these stream of comments (and the framing of the article) are more concerning than kanye’s thought process. why are black people so quick to pathologize each other? as the poet saul williams has pointed out the word nigger/nigga/niger has a long life — one that has spanned meaning from rock to god. he wrote a whole poem call NGH WHT? (in The Dead MC Scrolls) that is 33 something chapters — with the poem even produced as an album with the accompaniment of a symphony — considering the potency and complexity of its usage that goes far beyond the “its internalized negative image” arguments that are forwarded as “conscious.” real talk, being a “conscious” black person shouldn’t be about pathologizing other black folk, i.e “they need help.” 1. we need to get beyond the positive/negative dualism and have some more creativity, ingenuity, reflection, intensity and purpose to our thought process — also lets historicize, politicize and think about the larger structures which inform black life, black culture, black expression (lets look at the long long history that pits and produces black folks against one another as — the negative against positive, the proper vs. the improper, the classed vs. the classless black folks — scholars such as Grace Hong (The Ruptures of American Capital — in her reading of black “excess” as funk) and Roderick Ferguson (“Of Our Normative Strivings” and Aberrations in Black) write about the violence of producing “normative” and “proper” blackness) 2. i actually think kanye is onto something about nigga and bitch being “potent” rather than positive and negative… i’m just sayin ya’ll
I’m a bit disappointed that the comments section seems more concerned with speculating on Kanye’s mental condition than having a discussion about the word b*tch and it’s use. Recently my cousin (in his 20′s) called his sister (not yet 10) a b*tch because she refused to go to bed. I had to pull him up on that, but I can’t deny, it’s just become too common. It’s almost like the shorthand for girl or woman and I’m not ready to accept that as normal.
I removed myself from this slippery – and not always open, honest, and sincere – conversation a long time ago never to return. But the fact that a 30 plus year old man, in trying to act profound, is now only asking himself these questions despite all of the conversation in the world around him shows once again that the word “genius” was incorrectly applied to another dodo.
Thank you thank you and thank you.
I mean I’m not American but I visit often for school related work. I do listen to rap and I always thought that the use of those two words were more offensive than terms of endearment. It’s just not normal to use such disparaging words where I live. How did the African American culture or the rap/hip hop culture came to be? I always wondered.