Apr 10, 2016 Honestly, if you're not black, you can't say that word. With that said, anytime it comes up in the music I listen to, I don't censor s---
Apr 10, 2016 not true homie, pretty much any race except for white can say it, I've never felt awkward with any other race except white saying it unless its at a concert or I'm homies with them and they get the pass - DP
Apr 10, 2016 my best friend since we were about 8 is black and he doesn't care if i say n----- but i choose not to because it's just corny. im white.
Apr 10, 2016 Cuz Drake is half black and Em is all white. But then at the same time Drake is half white. I really don't think anybody should say that word anymore tbh.
Apr 10, 2016 @Koolo the answer depends on some cultural context about north america that you may or may not have, being from another continent. by and large, people who are black to any appreciable extent are considered, and treated black by the white majority. so even though drake (and obama) has a black father, yet grew up mostly with his white mother, drake (like obama) would be considered black by white people in omaha, and basically all over the country. now there's definitely a complicating factor here: colorism, or the idea that non-white people are treated better the lighter their skin is/"whiter" their features are. this can be seen in how light-skinned and dark-skinned black people are treated by white people, by other black people, and by the press (and law enforcement, the judicial system, employers, etc). some would argue, convincingly, that an artist like drake benefits from his skin tone in a way a darker artist (say meek mill) never could. but at the end of the day, drake is still black. as for why it's unacceptable here for white people to use the word, you have to remember that a vast majority of black people in north america were brought here against their will, as slaves. and since then, black people have never been on equal footing with their white counterparts. maybe if there's a distant future where the races are truly equal here, the word will lose some of its bite, but even then i doubt it.
