Why Is This White Girl Allowed to Use the N-Word?

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Meet Anna. She's 23. She's hot. She's white. And she lip-syncs the N-word in breakout Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky's video "Purple Swag."

But this hasn't caused widespread condemnation. In fact, it only seems to have added to her appeal. (Maybe it's the lip gloss and gold grills.) In a recent interview with HipHopDX, A$AP Rocky gives his take on the issue: "She does use the [word "nigga"] all the time -- you know, she's cool like that. She smokes. She drinks. She's cool...she's sexy. She's cute." The reporter fawns over her as well.

These sentiments are echoed throughout the video's YouTube comments section. "Probably the baddest white girl I've ever seen" says someone called 99wylie. "The white girl is dope," adds Biitchimballin93.

If all this sounds a bit strange, that might be because another white female on the rap scene has been taking hella guff for using the N-word. We speak, of course, of V-Nasty Kreayshawn's much-discussed crewmate whom we profiled recently.

The blogosphere has given V-Nasty near constant flack for dropping N-bombs. The condemnations she has received have been strongly worded, and they aren't just from music writers and critics; Yelawolf says he would slap V-Nasty if she used the word around him.

So what's with the double standard?


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rogoh308
rogoh308

Why don't you take this up with A$AP not all of us I personally don't care I'm sure you could have found some REAL news not this same old tired argument 

djmachineart
djmachineart

Someone should slap both of these dumb white girls.

lamandingos
lamandingos like.author.displayName 1 Like

She's hot? How you figure? I see a chubby white girl with a big nose and bad skin. Becky's like her are always getting passed around the 'hood. Gold teeth in the mouth? That means she wants to mess with gangbangers. Everyone knows gangbangers are broke, so you wanna guess who makes the money? Yep. She does. You wanna guess how she makes her money? Yep, with ads on backpage. Nice life bruh. Parents are real proud.

herbjones420
herbjones420

people forget why we have freedom of speach. its not so we can discriminate with out consequence, we have freedom of speach so we can voice our opinions. if you believe in freedom of speach you understand it works both ways, so quit bashing the author. truth is, nobody should say it, period. lead by example. PE@CE

DemetriustheSilver
DemetriustheSilver like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 3 Like

You know what L.A. Weekly? I'm going to do rap a huge favor. I will hire four Ugandan former-child soldiers, put them in T-shirts that say "Fuck Children", have an illiterate, deaf former tenant sharecropper from Alabama write out two verses and a simple chorus, get a 80 year old White Woman to lip sync to it and put platinum on her canine teeth. It'll be the most LA Weekly, revolutionary rap since Funky Four Plus One's "It's the Joint". You're Welcome.

DemetriustheSilver
DemetriustheSilver

Jesus H. Christ, is this legitimately a commercial product? Like this has people actively promoting it and financial backers putting money into it? How could you write this article with as serious a tone as you've used?

DemetriustheSilver
DemetriustheSilver

Oh my Child God Damned! We're now advocating slapping women? What next, Mormons are nice guys? We might as well murder every homosexer in the greater Los Angeles area because L.A. Weekly is sure as a child's anus sacrificing us on the altar of BloodLust!

Bc_1976
Bc_1976

Absolutely sad how lame and lightweight stuff tike this is. And even worse,how popular it is in some cicrles.

Ms.Dubstep:)
Ms.Dubstep:)

lets just say:  1.THE SONG IS (the def. of) STUPID 2.They BOTH make rap music look/sound bad 3.(we know that)She didn't mean it in a bad way :)

Yugurl_166
Yugurl_166

and moose is so right, shitty people

Yugurl_166
Yugurl_166

fucking hate the fact that some black people think they can "own" a word. It's discrimination of white people. So if a black skinned person says "white bitch" it's all oke? Verry hypocrite. Im also not a racist, i looovee white, black, latino and asian people. We're all human so stop bitching about "Nigga" like you're a shitty little kid. It's just a abbreviation of the word "negro" wich doesn't seem to be a problem either. 

BigWhiteDetroit
BigWhiteDetroit

"Why Is This White Girl Allowed to Use the N-Word?" For the same reason a nigga can call me a cracker. FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Granted by our amendments. Same reason you get to publish this page on the internet, playa.

DETROIT NIGGAS WASSUP?! I'm white, by the way, and i say that shit where Im from all day. Fuck your racial bullshit, be color blind hoe.

Daronte Tolliver
Daronte Tolliver

She can say because racial slurs aren't taken as seriously as they were in lets say the civil rights era. Not saying I agree with that but as long as today's youth continue to ignore their past and embrace ignorance. Shit like this will just continue

BG
BG

Calling V-Nasty a spitfire white female rapper is ridiculous... there is nothing spitfire about her. She is a god awful rapper, if you can even call her a rapper. 

Noah
Noah

She isnt a rapper you dumb fuck.  She simply lip synced because he asked.

Emo_fari3
Emo_fari3

shes just lip syncing so chill the fuck out and hop off her clitoris

Littlebuthed
Littlebuthed

why the fuck can blacks say it but not whites. who cares. its not racist. if she was she wouldn't b n the video. stfu. y'all are racist for bitchin. asap obviously didn't care so y do u. lol stfu.ignorant people.

Bamboozale0306
Bamboozale0306

We've accepted old slavery words an changed it to our ppl the phrase my "nigga"..It don't matter who, where or what color baby she has if so..Any time i hear any white person use the word..especially towards each other.. I laugh I don't know when it became cool to be wiggers? Too much TV!. She dont have no right to say that shit point blank period..an if you disagree you've allowed society to dictate what's ok an whats not. ppl really think its ok you not black!.. nor do you know what its like to be a black man in America. I brush it of i know there's god an bad of all colors, sids our constitution is bullshit..freedom of speech is great..but when the government uses it to make money off of you an I ..that causes conflict an their pockets get fat!. Ppl are copy cats an or lost.. she has gold in her mouth son cmon!.. i got 20 dollars says if she was getting robbed the white would come out in her..no disrespect to anyone. She wack an so are uneducated ppl who agree with guileness. 777

Anon
Anon

1. Yelawolf makes the point clear in both cases. Using the "n word" is cultural. the white girl in A$AP's video is in NY mouthing the word--respectfully (for all intents and purposes) with A$AP's artistic permission, so to speak. 

2. V Nasty thinks its appropriate for her to use "nigga" because there is a cultural difference, her kids are half black, and she feels she grew up in the same CULTURE--and therefore she thinks she has "permission" to use "nigga" as a white rapper. 3. Yelawolf himself makes a noble argument when he says that shit dont fly with him (using the n word) both as a white rapper and even more as a human being. Why not for Yelawolf, also a white rapper ? Because he grew up in deep southern CULTURE and it is even more racially charged word in Alabama where he is from. Setting aside the issue of V Nasty using the "n word"...  Yelawolf saying he would personally "smack V Nasty" if he heard her use the word? UM not okay. Why is it that no one has discussed the male-on-female violence so painfully obvious in that clip? It speaks volumes about how culture and words can affect ALL of us. That we freak over speaking or mouthing the "n word," but threats of violence (whether real or not) go unnoticed completely. Yelawolf admits he would slap a white woman (whom he has never met) for speaking a word that he personally and culturally disagrees with. Yet, not one reader bothered to raise the issue here. 

Slpcapone
Slpcapone

If u have 2 ask becuz u dont know when this or Anything else iz appropriate hat meanz YOU shouldnt say it...the double standard iz the fact that she'z actually a nigga.not blacc but a nigga none the less.white people didnt teach her that word,niggaz did.

clive burrows aka
clive burrows aka

I think whites should have a criteria to pass the saying nigga, Or get upped by an OG niggs to say it,

uh bitch
uh bitch

why are nxggxs aloud to say "bxtch" but bxtchxs can't say "nxggx"??? seems like thats the real double standard 

Tyrone Blanco
Tyrone Blanco

In Miami. Everyone is a "nigga" when anyone is refering to anybody else.  If you listen to anyone talk about anyone else. Instead of "dude" or "homie" or "my friend" or "that guy" or "cuz" or "bro" it's "nigga" or "that nigga" or "this nigga" being used. I grew up in LA. I'm a white dude that grew up in a pretty equally racial diverse area. Went to a HS that was pretty much 20% white, 20% Black, 20% Latino, 20% Asian, and 20% other. (Not exact figures and not ordered in any particular way other than that's how it popped into my head, and if your "other" it's not my fault I couldn't label you without offending you and it's not my fault because there wasn't enough of you to jump into the "Big Four") I would never think of calling anyone a nigga. But, have been refered to others as "my nigga" a few times. I've chased an ignorant white jogger down the street for calling my black friend a "stupid nigger that should go back where he came from"  because my buddy had to pull into a crosswalk and wait (after he properly stopped prior) because of fast moving cross traffic. The dumbass had to jog a whole block before he could even get to this crosswalk. He had plenty of time to avoid jogging into my friends car.  We witnessed many accidents at this blind stop sign. Not only did we live across this intersection. But, my buddy was born and raised in the city that he jogged in. This girl is in a music video & paid to lip sync words of an artist.  V-Nasty & her white home girlz are not acting. They are rapping and expressing themselves, as themselves. They are a product of where they came from. Like my buddy (who could take offense to the words these girls are using, and that offend some of you) says that he's sure that his ancestors were slaves when they walked the earth. And he feels what they went through. But, today he would never be enslaved by any word used by anyone. These girls are rappers. Some call them artists. Some call them performers. All I can say is if you like it. Listen and support them. If you don't like it? Turn it off. No one should judge anyone, nor threaten someone for just being themselves. Don't let any word enslave you.  

Scumbaby22
Scumbaby22

she is not hot at all and that part is really creepy and crappy.

kikojones
kikojones

Not defending its usage but kids of color--Asian, Hispanic, etc.--that grow up with black kids who use the "n" word, drop it themselves, even in front of other black kids, all the time. It's always been that way and yet there's not outcry there. It should be wrong across the board, no? Also, aren't "nigga" and "nigger" different terms?

Blahatblah
Blahatblah

nonsense music, nonsense messages, pathetic debate, rap is going in wrong direction.. again

anon
anon

You guys are so politically correct. It's cute. nigger nigger nigger. No one gives a fuck.

Dr. P
Dr. P

If they can use Bitch, she can use Nigga

fidoxxx
fidoxxx

A rose by any other name.....

St. Louis male
St. Louis male

It's okay for her because the cool black guy who she's with approves of it. So she mst be cool. I say this as a black man. V Nasty has no black people to approve of that word, no black friends. No right to say that at all.

facebook-100000124668253
facebook-100000124668253

I think it's sad that it's okay for a man to say he'd hit a female for saying a certain word and it's okay. I like what he says about knowing where words come from, but threatening violence to women shouldn't be acceptable. That being said though I think that V-nasty is ridiculous and most new rap is ridicilious. 

Thomas Bird
Thomas Bird

How bizarre has American culture become when there are words that certain races can use and its not a problem, but when other races say its a bad thing. If any of you ever live outside of America you will see how ridiculous and absurd this American culture fo pah is. 

kikojones
kikojones

Here's a simple analogy for you: I can criticize my family all I want but I don't want to hear you do it. Got it?

Shuga
Shuga

ok but its still "ridiculous and absurd" period.. no matter how you spin it.. its time to move the f on.. really tho.. and no i aint white

MIMICS
MIMICS

did Lana Del Rey pay you to distract us with this pointless article or something

kikojones
kikojones

My only regret is that I can only "like" your comment once.

NIGGADOG
NIGGADOG

that chick is pretty damn normal as far as white girls go lol..

Idea-
Idea-

yo chris walker, go fuck yourself nigga

The truth
The truth

(sarcastically) sure, why shouldn't she be allowed to casually use a word with 100s of years of racial hatred behind it?

you could argue "but what about all the black people that use it?", first of all they're wrong to use it, second of all just because they do doesn't mean you should too idiots

groups like public enemy used it to make their point more powerful and to show that's how they were basically being treated, before that Malcolm X and Dr. King would avoid using it as much as possible, it's messed up how it's just an everyday phrase now

i'm out...

The "white" guy next door
The "white" guy next door

haha peoples ingorance in the usage of the word nigga, is unbelievable.... in todays world the word nigga does not have the same meaning as the word nigger did in the past.... rap/hip hop is todays popular culture and thus has allowed the word nigga to evolve into a term that no longer has a racist meaning but a word that is used in a regular fashion to refer to someone. It doesnt change meaning because a different race uses the word either, to the people who think it does your fucking retarded and need to get off the whole racist train. Wtf did you think would happen to the word nigga that is used over and over in multiplle songs? I'll say it again QUIT riding the fucking racist train, and you wonder why racism hasnt died, because everything is referred back to race, its a fucking word which lost its demeaning manner a long fucking time ago. if you don't like it to fucking bad, the hiphop/rap culuture shouldnt have let it evolve into the meaning it has today..... 

yours truly,the "white" guy next door

andre1hendrik
andre1hendrik

maybe the debate shouldn't be centered around whether this girl can say that word, but how hip-hop became so lame?

Brandon Fisher♠♦
Brandon Fisher♠♦

First of all she lip-synching and people need to stop trying to act like nigga and nigger mean the same thing.  I have close friends of all races that I call nigga and they use the word nigga but if some random fuck comes up to me and says nigger in a disrespectful way then thats a whole different story.

Invalid
Invalid

Loose all yo' who can't see anything but either black or white, call our mothers and sisters "bitches", and think that a little refer matters more than a hill of dog poo. And for christsakes!, can these idiots stop repeating themselves like they have OCD-Anxiety disorder ?

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