ScHoolboy Q has retracted a past statement about white people being allowed to say the N-word.
The TDE rapper posted a screenshot of Hanif Abdurraqib’s 2017 book They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us which includes the chapter title “ScHoolboy Q wants white people to say the word ‘n-gga’ at his concerts.”
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In the chapter, Abdurraqib quotes an interview where Q said: “When the beat drops, I’ll expect y’all to say it. It’s not like I’m asking them to go out in the world and say it, but if they paid for a show and put food on my family’s table, I’m not going to be up there saying the word alone.”
The author/poet also references a 2013 concert where the “Collard Greens” hitmaker specifically instructed the crowd — “much of it white” — to rap the n-word during his last two songs.
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Along with the excerpt, ScHoolboy Q clarified his stance on the hot-button subject, admitting: “I was on drugs… no I don’t.”
The rapper also reposted a clip from The Good Fight starring Delroy Lindo on a fictional talk show where the white hosts are discussing white people saying the N-word.
In the clip, Lindo’s character tells the hosts to say the word, hilariously causing them to squirm.
In 2013, ScHoolboy Q did an interview with The Pete Holmes Show where he said he was okay with white people saying the racial slur while rapping along to his songs at shows.
“I don’t want nobody to say it outside my show,” he clarified. “I’m not telling everybody to just say it, but if you’re at my concert and the lyric comes up… I’ve said the lyric, I know [white fans] bought my albums and supported me. Why not?
“That don’t mean they’re racists. Obviously they’re not racist [if] they’re at my show. That racist thing is so old.”
ScHoolboy Q announced earlier this month that his new album Blue Lips will be released on March 1. The 17-track effort will include an appearance from Freddie Gibbs but other features have yet to be revealed.
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The South Central native has so far shared three songs from the album: “Back n Love” featuring fellow TDE signee Devin Malik; “Blueslides,” a tribute to Q’s late friend and collaborator Mac Miller; and the Cardo-produced “Yeern 101.”
Blue Lips will serve as the follow-up to 2019’s CrasH Talk, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 after earning 81,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.
