Derogatory Cursing in songs?

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  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    Cosmo wrote:
    Bottom line... White people shouldn't pretend they're black. I don't mind Snoop Dogg saying, "Nigga... pleeze...", but when Kevin Federline says it... he should be shot.. not because it's racist... because it's idiotic.
    If you are white... you are white. Quit rapping... quit saying, 'Beeeotch' and 'Snizzle'... quit being idiots. It doesn't make you look or sound cool... it makes you look like a fucking idiot.

    i don't want to come out and call you a racist because i don't know you and i can't determine that from this statement, but it's really a double standard and that is actually quite a racist statement. i personally don't mind the stupid catch phrases that you hear like snoop saying fo shizzle, nizzle, beotch, blah blah blah. it's stupid but it's harmless, but i think the point you were trying to make is that some people think it's cool to act like they don't know how to speak properly which i find annoying whether you're black or white. white people who talk like this are often times called "wiggers" but for some reason when black people talk like this it is just expected and accepted by so many people which i think is bullshit. i'll use chris rock's standup from about ten years ago to explain my point. he says there is niggers, and then there are black people. he says the niggers love to not know the fucking answer to you're question. and it really shows how the word nigger can be transformed from what was once a derogatory word used against black people, to a word that just describes ignorant people which is how i use it. now i don't go throwing this word around in public, because i know people might take it the wrong way and it can be offensive.....but when i'm with my friends who also use it and understand what i'm using it for......fuck, i call white people niggers, chineese people niggers, black people niggers, mexicans niggers. it doesn't matter who you are. i fucking hate this hip hop culture (not all of it it, there is good hip hop with substance) where it's cool to be stupid and dress like an asshole. and don't give me this different styles, different culture bullshit. i don't need to be seeing you're ass all the time because you can't get pants that fit. it just shows no class. anyway i'm kind of rambling so this might sound confusing but i just want to make it clear that i'm not racist at all. i just think the double standard where it's okay to look and sound like an idiot if you're black is bullshit. and if you're white or a different race you are just a poser trying to be black. we're all human beings and i don't care what race you are. if you speak ebonix and don't buy clothes that fit, and think it's cool to have a complete lack of knowledge of the world around you, you're a nigger. aaron carter - nigger. tiki barber - african american. lil wayne - nigger. talib kweli - african american. eddie vedder - caucasion. white guy i work with - nigger. get the point?.............oh and about the cursing. who fucking cares, it's just a word.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    i don't want to come out and call you a racist because i don't know you and i can't determine that from this statement, but it's really a double standard and that is actually quite a racist statement. i personally don't mind the stupid catch phrases that you hear like snoop saying fo shizzle, nizzle, beotch, blah blah blah. it's stupid but it's harmless, but i think the point you were trying to make is that some people think it's cool to act like they don't know how to speak properly which i find annoying whether you're black or white. white people who talk like this are often times called "wiggers" but for some reason when black people talk like this it is just expected and accepted by so many people which i think is bullshit. i'll use chris rock's standup from about ten years ago to explain my point. he says there is niggers, and then there are black people. he says the niggers love to not know the fucking answer to you're question. and it really shows how the word nigger can be transformed from what was once a derogatory word used against black people, to a word that just describes ignorant people which is how i use it. now i don't go throwing this word around in public, because i know people might take it the wrong way and it can be offensive.....but when i'm with my friends who also use it and understand what i'm using it for......fuck, i call white people niggers, chineese people niggers, black people niggers, mexicans niggers. it doesn't matter who you are. i fucking hate this hip hop culture (not all of it it, there is good hip hop with substance) where it's cool to be stupid and dress like an asshole. and don't give me this different styles, different culture bullshit. i don't need to be seeing you're ass all the time because you can't get pants that fit. it just shows no class. anyway i'm kind of rambling so this might sound confusing but i just want to make it clear that i'm not racist at all. i just think the double standard where it's okay to look and sound like an idiot if you're black is bullshit. and if you're white or a different race you are just a poser trying to be black. we're all human beings and i don't care what race you are. if you speak ebonix and don't buy clothes that fit, and think it's cool to have a complete lack of knowledge of the world around you, you're a nigger. aaron carter - nigger. tiki barber - african american. lil wayne - nigger. talib kweli - african american. eddie vedder - caucasion. white guy i work with - nigger. get the point?.............oh and about the cursing. who fucking cares, it's just a word.
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    Are you one of those 'Pretty Fly for a White Guy' white guys? Like, when you're calling a Chinese guy a 'Nigger'... are you saying it to his face? And are you throwing up Gang Signs with your hands and lifting one leg when you are saying it? Because, i bet it's really funny to see.
    Besides, you're taking what I said too deep...
    Look... on my softball team, the black guys on our team will call the black guys on the other team niggers or Brothers... I think it is based on whether they like the guy on the other team or they don't... I don't know, but I'm going to ask them. The rest of us (Whites, Mexcans, Japanese, Korean, El Salvadorian, Cuban and Panamanian) call them all 'Brothers'... example, I'd say, "The brother out there is gonna get burned because he's playing Gabe way too shallow"... where Bill (a black guy) will say, "Gabe's gonna burn that Nigger out there". It means the same thing... Gabe is going to take a pitch and send it rocketing over the guy's head.
    Thing is... We don't say it, we don't call them Niggers.... even if they do... or Chris Rock does... just like we don't call the Japanese guy a Jap or the Korean guy a Gook or the Cuban guy a Spic. They can get away with it... and yeah, a double standard... what's the big deal? Tell you what... live as a minority for a life time and see what it's like... then, come back to me.
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    Again... Bottom line... White people... you are NOT BLACK PEOPLE. Quit Rapping and acting all Federline... you look like idiots. It's as stupid as Beatles Fans from Kansas all of a sudden speaking with a Liverpool accent... or an Arab guy talking like the local surfers... it all makes you look like idiots and Kooks. Be yourself.
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Derrick wrote:
    oh..that reminds me...canada used to have stupid laws about censorship. like, you could swear on tv, but not if it implied any sort of violence or harassment, especially not towards women.

    So if Die Hard was playing on City TV, Maclean would say "Motherfucker" but they would silence-out or overdub the "mother" part, but leave the "fucker" part in.

    That usually made me laugh.

    Oh for goodness sake!! How truly ridiculous! :rolleyes:

    Who thinks up this stuff????

    Be hysterical to watch though! And aggravating! :D
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    Cosmo wrote:
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    Are you one of those 'Pretty Fly for a White Guy' white guys? Like, when you're calling a Chinese guy a 'Nigger'... are you saying it to his face? And are you throwing up Gang Signs with your hands and lifting one leg when you are saying it? Because, i bet it's really funny to see.
    Besides, you're taking what I said too deep...
    Look... on my softball team, the black guys on our team will call the black guys on the other team niggers or Brothers... I think it is based on whether they like the guy on the other team or they don't... I don't know, but I'm going to ask them. The rest of us (Whites, Mexcans, Japanese, Korean, El Salvadorian, Cuban and Panamanian) call them all 'Brothers'... example, I'd say, "The brother out there is gonna get burned because he's playing Gabe way too shallow"... where Bill (a black guy) will say, "Gabe's gonna burn that Nigger out there". It means the same thing... Gabe is going to take a pitch and send it rocketing over the guy's head.
    Thing is... We don't say it, we don't call them Niggers.... even if they do... or Chris Rock does... just like we don't call the Japanese guy a Jap or the Korean guy a Gook or the Cuban guy a Spic. They can get away with it... and yeah, a double standard... what's the big deal? Tell you what... live as a minority for a life time and see what it's like... then, come back to me.
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    Again... Bottom line... White people... you are NOT BLACK PEOPLE. Quit Rapping and acting all Federline... you look like idiots. It's as stupid as Beatles Fans from Kansas all of a sudden speaking with a Liverpool accent... or an Arab guy talking like the local surfers... it all makes you look like idiots and Kooks. Be yourself.


    huh. if that's your response than my post just went right over your head. i don't get what you are saying. and no i'm not a pretty fly for a white guy kind of guy if i even know what you are talking about. my point is people talking like morons should not be considered okay just because they are black. i know black people call themselves 'niggas' and 'brothers' all the time and i couldn't care less as long as they know how to speak. it just seems like you are hating on white people who talk like they are black, which unfortunatley i'm gonna assume you mean that they are talking like an idiot. (not that i think all black people can't talk, it's just the stereotype) anyway that's fine, cause i can't stand white people that talk like that either. but why is it okay for black people to talk like this. its not. it's not okay for anyone. and i just think white, black, asian, indian, whatever.....if you talk like a moron on purpose, you're an asshole. (substituted for more offensive word)
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    huh. if that's your response than my post just went right over your head. i don't get what you are saying. and no i'm not a pretty fly for a white guy kind of guy if i even know what you are talking about. my point is people talking like morons should not be considered okay just because they are black. i know black people call themselves 'niggas' and 'brothers' all the time and i couldn't care less as long as they know how to speak. it just seems like you are hating on white people who talk like they are black, which unfortunatley i'm gonna assume you mean that they are talking like an idiot. (not that i think all black people can't talk, it's just the stereotype) anyway that's fine, cause i can't stand white people that talk like that either. but why is it okay for black people to talk like this. its not. it's not okay for anyone. and i just think white, black, asian, indian, whatever.....if you talk like a moron on purpose, you're an asshole. (substituted for more offensive word)
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    Okay... my bad. I thought you said you wouldn't call anyone 'Nigger' in public, but, amongst your friends, it's a synonym for 'moron' that applies to white or Chinese or whoever.
    My point... I get it. I understand that it's okay for black dudes to us the term 'Nigga' as they want. They understand what it's like to be black... and not Oprah black or Tiger Woods black or Michael Jordan black... just some black dude out there trying to get along. Sorry, it ain't fair, not matter how we pretend it is. and their language is slang... if the black community is cool with it... fine. If Snoop Dogg says it... it fits. Lilly white Vanilla Ice says the same thing... sounds like a dick.
    My overall take on it... it is just as stupid for Madonna to speak with an English accent as Kevin Federline to talk like he grew up in Compton. They get those accents from audio and visual media. They look like real idiots. Just like white suburban dickheads that talk like they are from the 'hood'. They would wet their oversized pants in an instant if their car ever broke down in North Long Beach. Stay in their safe little surburban neighborhoods and quit jumping bad like they are Gangstaz. They are little white wussies that sound like little white wussie fools. And the older guys that do that... well, they are just pathetic. Face it... you are white. Be white and don't sweat it.
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    Hail, Hail!!!
  • sicnevolsicnevol Posts: 180
    Derrick wrote:
    How do you feel about swearing and cursing in songs? How do you feel about derogatory labels?

    There is a sharp trend coming to curb certain words in music. Do you think it will be good? Do you think it will be bad? do you think it will, in anyway, affect future PJ recordings? I know most of the heat right now is on rap, coming out of the Don Imus thing, but if standards are set for the entire music industry, what then?

    I personally believe the more you restrict something, the more popular it becomes. So as lyrics get dirtier and dirtier, the allure of listing to Parental Advisory sticker albums is less glossy. People get used to certain words and dont' care anymore. Global restrictions are just going to create another 2LiveCrew. A crappy band made famous by pushing an envelope.
    i think that you should be able to say whatever you please. If i or anyone is upset by it, we have the option of not listening.


    I like hip-hop and some rap, but I like how Cee-lo uses decent language and still sounds fucking awsome.

    Outkast is good too. I'm okay with the curses but I won't listen to stuff that is just about bitches and hoes and look how much money I have. same goes for the rock, and metal i listen too. has to have amessage i can identify with or its useless to me.
    That's two things we've got, Tape and Time.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    sicnevol wrote:
    i think that you should be able to say whatever you please. If i or anyone is upset by it, we have the option of not listening.


    I like hip-hop and some rap, but I like how Cee-lo uses decent language and still sounds fucking awsome.

    Outkast is good too. I'm okay with the curses but I won't listen to stuff that is just about bitches and hoes and look how much money I have. same goes for the rock, and metal i listen too. has to have amessage i can identify with or its useless to me.
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    I'm the same way... it's not the terms people use, such as 'Fuck'... but the songs. And how you can relate to it.
    Example: I went to a radio festival that featured the Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave and Motley Crue. I can relate to, "I don't owe you anything! I don't owe you anything!!!" and "Fuck you, we won't do whacha you tell me! FUCK YOU WE WON'T DO WHACHA YOU TELL ME!!!" But, "Shout! Shout! Shout.. at the devil." or "Girls. Girls. Girls..."? Shut up Motley Crue.... shut up.
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  • TrauTrau Posts: 188
    "derogatory cursing"
    In the shadow of the light from a black sun
    Frigid statue standing icy blue and numb
    Where are the frost giants Ive begged for protection?
    I'm freezing

    Are you afraid, afraid to die
    Don't be afraid, afraid to try
  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    After listening to some Zappa in the car on the way to work this morning this thread for some reason popped into my head.



    .......when I fucked this dyke by the name of Freddie..... and..... wristwatch crisco, fist-fuck......

    Yeah it belongs!

    I have two personas. My work one where I have to be who they want me to be. And my home life where my friends say I use the word fuck a lot. Fuck em! They still come over to visit and laugh.
    You've changed your place in this world!
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