MY view on "Be A Nigger Too"

[Rapsoldier101]

Honestly Im a Fan Of Nas, I Have Bought A Few Of His Albums I Love His Music But The Video For This Song Really Offended Me, He Makes It Seem Like All White People Are Responsible For What Other White People And There Ancestors Have Done. Slavery Was A Hundred Years Ago. All White Slave Owners Are Dead. But African Americans Still Inslave Eachother In Africa. And Why Isnt That Discussed? Slavery is ok if the master and the slave are the same race? I Think Slavery Is Wrong All Together And Whites arent The Only People Responsible For It. I Hate Racism With A Passion And This Song Seems To Me Like Hes Stirring Up A Big White Vs Blacks. Ok i understand whites might have the most percentage of racists out of all races (but blacks have a high percentage as well) but i think hes wrong for singling the race out like this.

just my veiw on this, nas is a great artist but i dont like his direction with this song/video.

[Tash8]

yea he's psissing em off, especially when he never experienced what slaves had to go through, he's just like any other white man in this country...

[Emadyville]

Agreed all around

[theJFKshow]

Yeah that's exactly what I thought when I first listened to his song and saw his new album and the whole "nigger" thing he is on now. It's only going to encourage more racism. I know I've already made some jokes about it and showed some of my white friends the song. They all laughed at it.

This strategy is not working Nas.

[Emadyville]

Yeah that's exactly what I thought when I first listened to his song and saw his new album and the whole "*****" thing he is on now. It's only going to encourage more racism. I know I've already made some jokes about it and showed some of my white friends the song. They all laughed at it.

This strategy is not working Nas.

It's true cause a lot of white people listen to nas and rap in general, so why make it out to be we're all racists? We're the one who buy his shit, I don't understand this whole thing either.

[theJFKshow]

We're all Nas's niggers, didn't you listen to the song?

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Honestly Im a Fan Of Nas, I Have Bought A Few Of His Albums I Love His Music But The Video For This Song Really Offended Me, He Makes It Seem Like All White People Are Responsible For What Other White People And There Ancestors Have Done. Slavery Was A Hundred Years Ago. All White Slave Owners Are Dead. But African Americans Still Inslave Eachother In Africa. And Why Isnt That Discussed? Slavery is ok if the master and the slave are the same race? I Think Slavery Is Wrong All Together And Whites arent The Only People Responsible For It. I Hate Racism With A Passion And This Song Seems To Me Like Hes Stirring Up A Big White Vs Blacks. Ok i understand whites might have the most percentage of racists out of all races (but blacks have a high percentage as well) but i think hes wrong for singling the race out like this.

just my veiw on this, nas is a great artist but i dont like his direction with this song/video.

you sound like a close minded honkey (for the record im white) like your taking this personely like he is attacking you, my view of it he isnt goin against the people hes goin against the mind frame and to tackle that you have to show what happened in a physical form to break it and speak of it as if its the present, if im not right in saying there's a line "africans dont like us anywae a killing happened in johanesburg yesterday" so nas is aware that africans are quilty aswell. if anything the video should show you how smart nas is being with it, if it was a senseless video of the KKK or just slaved working id be a bit more scepticle but it wasnt it was intelegently put across.

i mean come on, you really think its possible for nas to go against the actuall people who supported slavery ? i know he talks of smoking weed alot but his mind isnt that smoked out, i think he is a decent enough man to be able to add up the time frame and know there all dead.

if people are still looking at this is Nas Vs Slavery please dont even follow the build up off the album or buy it coz its like missing a obvious metaphor, your just dumb.

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if people are still looking at this is Nas Vs Slavery please dont even follow the build up off the album or buy it coz its like missing a obvious metaphor, your just dumb.

well since you seem to be a close friend of nas, then please tell us what the album is about lol

ok so you think its nas vs slavery ? could be coz, funnily enough, i keep hearing people chant jimmy can crack corn everywere i go these days....


imo its a mind frame hes goin against, i aint from usa i dont live in the society i cant comment on it first hand, i do live in a place were there's a set mind frame from older people (especially 60+) were they think its completely naturual to call black people nigger if they arent around, and from younger people chink and paki are the forms of racism ive seen first hand, id say its a bigger example of that hes goin against, slavery is just the shock tactic hes using to grab peoples attention coz even though it was so long ago its still one of the most shocking things to read about or watch.

[,-,'-{Bar}-',-,]

I agree with you there and it's the same here...but I think (and I'm guessing the others think the same) is that Nas shouldn't even bring that shit up even if it is just a metaphor. I hate it when people bring up shit that happened in the past. Like Eminem saying nig.ger, he did that when he was young and dumb and it was stupid for Benzino to bring it up. America had slaves when it was young and dumb and we are very sorry for it and we have said sorry many times. But people like Nas just won't drop it. People from the middle east have hated us and did some horrible things to the us in the past, but when I talk to people from the middle east I don't just bring that shit up

well you got ap oint maybe dropping the subject would help it, but most likely you aint racist, you have no problem with black people ect. so you get annoyed coz your getting put in with the people who deserve it to be brought up, witch is like the whole "majority getting punished for the minority" again i cant comment directly about america but all the people who are racist over here deserve it to get brought up and publicly shown untill it stops, and there will always be people who feel as if its showing them up even though they arent one of them people, thats why the whole thing doesnt bother me even though hes showing whites as the bad people at times, i know i aint one of them people so it doesnt bother me, i also know there is still people out there who are in that mind frame and they deserve to get that image played to them, even though itll most likely backfire like propaganda and if younger nas listeners take these images the wrong way theyll most likely hold a grudge against white people who are perfectly nice and have nothing against black people. but then again, on the flip side schools teach stuff to make there own country look like the good guys so thos young listners may have never seen or read about the hard truth of the topic so nas showing the true side of it is in a way good...its a fucked up and complicated subject thats also delicately delt with lol

was "jimmy can crack corn" a racist thing in the past

the original jimmy can crack corn (go on youtube youll hear it) was a song the slaves sang while working in the feilds, i think..i aint perfect with my history but im pretty sure thats were the saying and song comes from lol

[Rapsoldier101]

well you got ap oint maybe dropping the subject would help it, but most likely you aint racist, you have no problem with black people ect. so you get annoyed coz your getting put in with the people who deserve it to be brought up, witch is like the whole "majority getting punished for the minority" again i cant comment directly about america but all the people who are racist over here deserve it to get brought up and publicly shown untill it stops, and there will always be people who feel as if its showing them up even though they arent one of them people, thats why the whole thing doesnt bother me even though hes showing whites as the bad people at times, i know i aint one of them people so it doesnt bother me, i also know there is still people out there who are in that mind frame and they deserve to get that image played to them, even though itll most likely backfire like propaganda and if younger nas listeners take these images the wrong way theyll most likely hold a grudge against white people who are perfectly nice and have nothing against black people. but then again, on the flip side schools teach stuff to make there own country look like the good guys so thos young listners may have never seen or read about the hard truth of the topic so nas showing the true side of it is in a way good...its a fucked up and complicated subject thats also delicately delt with lol

yea i agree, i just dont like the way he portrayed white people, like blacks are victims and thats not right because no race is a victim of racism only specific people of that race dealing with racism from a specific person from another race. no race is really a all around victim like nas portrays in this video. hes promoting Anti-Racism in a racist way. He makes it seem like racism is good aslong as its against whites.

[yoshi]

i'm not sure about the whole album, i'm gonna wait until it's released and then make a comment. as for now, i can say that "Be A Nigger Too" is a good one. on the one hand, it's Nas bitching about slavery although he never experienced it and probably never will. on the other hand - he's still black, which means he has the right to express his thoughts about the past, because it was his ancestors who had to carry the burden of slavery.

of course, hating us now for what happened in the past is equal to.. let's say polish and jewish people hating Germans for what they've done during the 2nd World War. i hate racism with passion and Nas probably knows that not all of us are racists so i guess whatever he says about whites is adressed mostly to those who still are familiar with KKK ideas.

as for now, i'm confused about the whole album, and i guess we all just need to wait and give it a proper listen.

[Tash8]

i like what he's trying to do, but i just feel he's pushing it to the point where you get sick of it...