Question: When Did The N-Word Stop Being A Word That Black People Use "privately amongst themselves"?

[Double Burger With Cheese]

you have reached a super saiyan level of deflection with this

"bu Bu wHaT abOUT a 50 YeaR olD whiTE Man that SAID it 35 YEarS ago!!??"

Ain’t no deflection. I don’t take these type of threads serious at all. I come in here to call out all this holier than thou, I wanna be the authority on black people as threads. Thread starter is a gay male that used to go by the screen name Phonzi, and has a history as of making these goofy ass “what black people need to do threads” all while being an Emininem Stan. I think a lot of you nikkas are pure bytch ass nikkas and lame beyond belief. And I will come share my opinion when I see some goofy ass shyt. To be clear, I can say what the fukk I want and don’t give a fukk about what anyone else says. I don’t give a fukk if people say nikka or not. A cracker call me a nikka they might die. But I’m not soft like a lot of yall

 

[Mac Ten]

I can't remember who was the first, but Vanilla Ice used it on his 2nd album (1994), and Young Black Teenagers (a group of white boys) used it on their debut ('93, I think):

Wow

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

That’s cap.

nikkas was calling nikkas nikka in blaxploitation movies nikka


This not a hip hop thing .

 

[Matt504]

That’s cap.

nikkas was calling nikkas nikka in blaxploitation movies nikka


This not a hip hop thing .

They were calling themselves n*gger in those movies. While I don't make a distinction between the two spellings and believe they mean the same thing, I think it's worth pointing that out. Someone even shared one of the MANY covers from Richard Pryor albums with the word n*gger in the title.

 

[3rdWorld]

It's crass and cringe..nothing brotherly or cool bout it.
And with it going mainstream, Black people that had no hand in that mess suffer.

And wheres the evidence Black people took it back and own it when the exact opposite has happened

 

[Carl Tethers]

Jimmy Iovine had this song back in the day in 1978, but he told suge and tupac they had to eliminate some songs because they was mentioning jewish /white women..

Nobody talks about this or bring this up to him

I saw that documentary on Iovine and Dr. Dre, and he plays this to Dre in the whip like

 

[85 East]

This disnt story with Hip Hop. We been Chong ourselves nikka since before our grandparents were born. That's why you can see it in movies that predate Hip Hop. Hip Hop just helped continue to normalize it to newer generations. We've always used the word.

 

[Arcavian]

It never was

 

[ABlackMan]

nikka and it's different forms. The word been around for over 1000 years.

But before that though

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

1974

And he used to use the hard e r

 

[Matt504]

And he used to use the hard e r

Just like all of his contemporaries. Anyone arguing otherwise should produce receipts of our elders making the "it's spelled differently" claim.

 

[concise]

I don’t think it matters

It does if we are talking about using the word where other people can hear it.

And he used to use the hard e r

It was printed with the hard r, but that was not how he actually pronounced it.




Album is on youtube and you can clearly hear how he is pronouncing the word.







Here you can clearly hear the difference in pronounciation between the patron and the server.

 

[Matt504]

It does if we are talking about using the word where other people can hear it.









It was printed with the hard r, but that was not how he actually pronounced it.




Album is on youtube and you can clearly hear how he is pronouncing the word.







Here you can clearly hear the difference in pronounciation between the patron and the server.

this is a silly argument.
Many Black people both in the past and in modern times pronounce words that end in er with an a sound. You'll be surprised to learn that white folk in the south also do this.

 

[concise]

this is a silly argument.
Many Black people both in the past and in modern times pronounce words that end in er with an a sound. You'll be surprised to learn that white folk in the south also do this.

Except when it is time to properly pronounce the n word. Then they enunciate it just fine.

 

[MajesticLion]

ha @ the premise


They've known the entire time. They've encouraged your rationalizations the entire time. They've been laughing at you the entire time. Because they've been profiting off you lying to yourself the entire time.




Smarten up.