While speaking with Vlad TV, Ja Rule offered his thoughts on white people using the n-word.
According to Queens, New York rapper Ja Rule, “there’s no way around” keeping white people, the youth in particular, from using the n-word. While speaking on the matter, Ja recalled a concert he attended where the n-word was faded out in a song, but the concert attendees, who he says were mostly white, still sang along during that particular part of the song.
“It’s Hip Hop, man,” Ja Rule said. “The kids listen to Hip Hop. They use the n-word. Point blank, period. There’s no way around it. You know what I mean? I’m at a concert the other day. Nothing but white kids at the concert. Metro Boomin is deejaying and shit, right? What does he throw on? ‘All day, nigga’…And he’s fading the ‘nigga’ part. And those white kids are singing that ‘nigga’ word like a mothafucka. You know what I’m saying? I’m up in the balcony dying laughing because I’m like ‘Yo, what do you expect them to do? What do you think they’re gonna do?’ To them it’s a song. They just singing a song, having fun. So, now what do you do? Not play that song when you have a white audience and you deejaying? I don’t know—I really don’t know how to combat this.”
Given his belief that the word “has a different meaning now,” Ja Rule explained that he’s still unsure of who should and shouldn’t use the n-word. He also used singer Justin Bieber as an example of a white artist who likely received a pass when he did use the word, because of his age.
“Let’s bring Justin Bieber into this for a great example,” he said. “He has the video that came out a few years ago. He’s singing ‘one lonely nigga’ or whatever. He got a pass. He got a pass because we all looked at it like ‘He’s a kid. He doesn’t know no better. He probably doesn’t even know the history of the word.’ But he got a pass. I don’t know why he got a pass, but he got a fuckin’ pass. It’s hard to determine who can say the word, who cannot say the word…The word has a different meaning now. It’s not the same.”
Video of Ja Rule speaking on white people’s use of the n-word, can be found below.
Dre didn’t create as singular a sound on Compton as he did on The Chronic 2001 but he did mix a whole bunch of new things to create what was a pretty strong album. Most of the songs won’t stand the test of time, of that I have no doubt, but he did put out something interesting and bold. Praise for that, especially with the pressure he’s clearly been feeling, and which halted his creative efforts ‘Detox’-wise. Personal favourite? the samples used on ‘It’s All On Me’. Unfortunately, the lyrics and delivery (verses and chorus) didn’t match the feeling I got from those first four instrumental bars, but that’s a personal preference.
Nigga please, I say the nigga word thousands times a day (means I probably can, but not sure, lemme try it again out loud, nigga) and I’m white as fuck, niggas. You niggas more focused on how these words hurt you niggas instead of paying some attention to how you niggas hurt each other with guns, nigga.
And if white people using nigga word is a problem, nigga, then I suggest you ask some asians, semites and latinos to tell you who you are, coz its most likely you forgot youre a nigga, nigga. Not just to a fucking whiteman. Youre black to the whole universe. Ask a 2 year old chink whats the color of nigga skin and he’ll say – NIGGA, just kidding. Now the question is will a nigga stop being a nigga if we stop calling him a nigga. Hell no, a nigga will start rapping and every fucking line will end with a nigga word. And nigga will act like oh shit we got something here that whiteman dont have, a nigga word. But words aint things, nigga, and they dont worth shit.
Nigga word will never go away, nigga, coz its a dead end, nigga, and nigga is too lazy to go back so hes here to stay FOREVER, nigga, so nigga word is your best friend that will never leave you, if only I had one, right. The only way to stop using a nigga word, nigga, is to stop using it, nigga, will 7 billion people stop using a word just for you? Should they? You cant get rid of racial slurs, they will be there even when you and all the other niggas will stop taking these seriously. Maybe you should think about more important issues instead of being offended by your own skin color.
Winger! U got a lot to say boy,I don’t fuck with u or ur type of shit cus wtf are u mad about though we cool with our skin colour but are u cool with urs lol
We know why y’all all up in our business but we don’t care about urs and learn to stay away from niggaz talk cus we really don’t wanna know wot u think or how u feel about it Just go far away from niggaz talk.is that hard to do and u wonder why is hard bin black
Yo! Black rules everywhere now. It ain’t about all white shit stuff. Black’s really involved now. Black rules!
Fuck ya self nigga. @whiteman
I’m not black and i say it all the time
Whether nggia is offensive or not depends on the context of how it’s used. Today nggia doesn’t refer to color so much as it refers to a cultural affect. If you don’t want to be one don’t act like one. Potentially you could be white an be a nggia. I have met a few… I don’t say nggia because i know my history an yall say it enough for me an you.. May peace prevail
If white people can’t sing along to your song cuz of their skin color…don’t expect them to buy your shit. If a non-racist saying becomes racist only when a certain race recites it, doesn’t that make it racist in itself? This debate is embarrassing
I read an article from some clown on complex or something that said white people dropping n words while singing along was unacceptable. Like, cause of my race I can’t enjoy something the same way you can? Thank you, Ja for your insight that it’s just a song, has no malicious intention and shouldn’t be treated like it does. Best thing I’ve heard from you since “New York” in 2004.
What about Stitches? Game told him to stop, but no one else is speaking on him having songs like “Fuck Nigga”.
Stitches is a different story. This aint no white fan of rap music at a show singing along to a rap song he like, repeating somebody else’s interpretation of that word. This a white fuckboi calling a black man “nigga”, comming up with his own music dropping n-bombs all the time. In no way is that acceptable. And I laugh when I hear these retards say it’s ok because he is part Cuban……..Foh u dumbasses. Cuba has white people too, not mixed. It’s a melting pot with blacks, Hispanics, natives, mixed and WHITES. There are people there fuckin white pale skin, just like Brazil etc. So stfu, idiots.
Dres album was good, just glad he got x to da z, em, cube, snoop & game on the album and no bieber, drake, ross and wayne!!!! Only king t and kurupt are missing!!!!
bitch niggas still getting butthurt over a word. weak ass pussy niggas.
Ja Rule should have his n word pass revoked for being a salty fat shit who can’t stay relevant for the life of him.
Dre’s album really grew on me. I mean, i didn’t really like it at first. My expectations were high and probably impossible. But after a couple listens i started to really enjoy it.
Saying a word shouldn’t be determined by the color of your skin. It means ignorance so if your an ignorant nigga that’s what I’m gonna call you regardless of your skin color.
By the way the ground that you live on wasn’t owned by your ancestors so why don’t you leave it to who was there first?
Your logic is moronic
I think Ja has a really good point. The other day I heard Myke C-Town from Dead End Hip Hop talk about how even though it annoys him as a black man hearing white people say it, the thing that keeps the word alive is anyone using it at all. So if an artist doesn’t want white audience members singing along and saying the N-word, Myke argues that the most effective thing is to not say it in their songs at all.
Basically whether you’re for, against or indifferent to white people singing along with the N-word, you know that fans aren’t going to follow some rule about it – you can either write it out so it doesn’t happen or accept that some fans just aren’t going to be smart about it.
“Niggas” can be niggas as they fade away and no one cares about their crap attitude or their happiness in being ignorant and angry. Either way, niggas won’t get anything being niggas.