Kanye West has been deemed a polarizing figure in both his music and his controversial personality. His shows often draw criticism usually stemming from ‘Ye’s song interludes that contain his distain for certain people and the media. It isn’t often that the Chicago-based producer and rapper is criticized for his usage of swear words.
In a recent Mirror article, Lionel Richie expressed his displeasure with West’s recent performance of “All Day” at the Brit Awards. According to Richie, the N-word shouldn’t be used by anyone.
“Am I fan of the N-word? Not coming from the 1960s and 70s. Whereas the new world has embraced it,” Richie said when addressing Kanye’s usage of the N-word. “I don’t think it’s OK for a black man to use the N-word. I don’t like it – and I am a black man. I don’t think it should be said and become normal.”
The famed ’60s musician also claims Kanye West is providing his generation “shock value” and that his voice is speaking louder than his actual music.
“Kanye is giving us the generation shock value. How he carries on for the next 10 years we will see,” he said. “The music business is more attention driven, but you have to let it pass. Don’t even focus on it. Because what we have going on in the world is so over the top. I mean, who are we fighting?
“There is more hunger and famine in the world today than there was when we did ‘We Are The World.’”
According to 3am sources told the publication that West had rehearsed a censored version of the “All Day” a day prior, but opted out of it an hour before the show to delete the changes.
Watch a video of Kanye West’s performance during the Brit Awards here.
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Man black people were calling each other naggers in the 60’s and 70’s at a MASSIVE rate… FOH… Every old person in my family throws the word around the same way cats are doing nowadays. Go watch “the mack”, “superfly” or any of those old movies. STOP FRONTING
Doesn’t make it right.
i would bet money that most of your family is uneducated and broke
To dumb ass who first commented- that is exactly the reason most members of your fam are dunks, drug addicts and what not, fucker.
“The famed 60s musician”? Lionel Richie? I know this is hiphopdx but check your facts before posting.
Lionel just has to get used to what we been having to deal with in Kanye for many years now. That Kanye is a complete idiot and total douches, a dookie stain in the social media we’ve been unable to find bleach to clean. So we have to live with this dookie stain until he gets tired of performing.
God, you are someone who likes having sex with guys.
The difference between the use of the word in the 60’s and 70’s is that then people of other ethnicities and races didn’t throw it around like it is not a derogatory term for Blacks. The reckless use of the word, mainly by Blacks like West, has given people the false impression that they no longer have to respect us as a people. That’s not okay. Lionel Richie is right to be disgusted, and I am glad a celebrity finally said it.
nigga, you trippin
“he reckless use of the word, mainly by Blacks like West, has given people the false impression that they no longer have to respect us as a people” – the fuck are you tarlking about? you really think people hearing ‘nigga’ thrown around makes them think they don’t have to respect an ENTIRE group of people? fuck outta here wit your deluded ass
ima say nigga if i wanna say nigga, fuck watchu think. welcome to my generation, get used to it. all these old ass niggas wanna talk about social issues but they forget that they are discussing things from a dated perspective. THINGS HAVE CHANGED for the better or worse, who gives a fuck.
women are bitches, men are niggas as far as im concerned. fuck yo opinion, niggas wanna talk the good talk but can’t do shit about it! hahaha dumb bitch
ima roll a fat blunt, dip it in cough syrup, and burn it fat wit my bitch, niggas who hate aint finna chill with me, that’s about it, i don’t give a fuck about u or what other niggas think, IM ME, YOU be YOU, quit worryin about what other niggas gotta say, fuck em, they dont give a fuck about u anyway
I agree Ebony.
I’m not perfect I use the word also..but maaan I’ve been trying hard to stop and I aint ever going to use it in front of whitey.
The majority of white people and other races don’t respect us and saying Nigga just gives them another excuse not to.
So why play into it?
Does using the word Nigga have an effect on our subconscious? We’ll never know, unless we stop using the word and I will never see the point of grandstanding or protesting for the use of the word.
DX, you retards. This is fake. He was fucking hugging Kanye at the awards and bobbing his head to the performance. This is from The Daily Mail, which is like the British MediaTakeOut.
This nigga trippin’! Nigga we some niggaz. So what nigga! Damn nigga! It’s how you use the word not just becuse of sayin’ nigga nigga, Damn nigga. Chill nigga. Peace nigga. Aight nigga! Yeah nigga!
I just read that to myself out loud, & my teeth already feel whiter…nigga!
All the black legends like Quincy and Lionel laugh at Kanye and think he’s a joke.
Lionel Richie’s first album came out in the 80s.
HipHopDX stay fucking up.
@BigHenry, the sad part about your ignorance is that you are absolutely unaware of it. Or maybe you are, because it’s obvious that you grew up without a mother or father that cared about you. You are correct, you ARE a nigga. Not a black man or African-American. You and all of these rappers putting out bullshit are the scum house niggas that are doing the job of racists and think you’re cool in the process.
Kanye saying nigga is just as corny as Drake saying it lol
Good job paul on posting this article…..like 5 days after other sites did…..next time check vlad TV they had this a few days back…..it bad enough you steal your stories from other sites atleast do it in a timely fashion
You get your fucking head chopped off for saying that bullshit around here
Nigga please!
Famed 60’s musician? Someone already said it but truly a music website should at least know the decade of which a popular artist is from before posting things like this.
yeah but doesn’t that just show that we are the world never worked….? that it was a bunch of posturing that just made you look better, but didn’t really change anything?