Jennifer Lopez sang a song written by Ja Rule that included the N-Word.
Jennifer Lopez sang a song written by Ja Rule that included the N-Word. The article goes on to interview several people to get their opinion. One of these individuals is a guy by the name of “Star” and he is a radio deejay. He found the lyrics of the song so raciest that when she came to New York to perform, he called Lopez a "rice-and-bean-eating [expletive]" and threatened to show up at her show “and throw rice and beans”. Is that raciest?
This Washington Post article uses a variation of the N-Word and does not use the term Latinx. Who was supposed to cancel them and forgot?
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Latina superstar Jennifer Lopez has found herself in the middle of a controversy surrounding her use of a racial epithet in a song.
A new remix version of "I'm Real," from her multiplatinum "J.Lo" album, contains the lines "People be screamin' what's the deal with you and so-and-so / I tell them (variation of N-word) mind their biz but they don't hear me, though."
lyrics, written by rapper Ja Rule and his producer, Irv Gotti
But the tempest over Lopez is clearly an illustration of how public reaction to the word continues to depend very much on who utters it.
"For anyone to think or suggest or say that I'm racist is really absurd and hurtful to me," she said. Lopez did not apologize but she did explain: "The use of the word in the song, which was actually written by Ja Rule, was never meant to be hurtful in any way to anybody."
Harvard professor Randall Kennedy explained why the epithet is so complicated and provocative. "The n-word is the atomic bomb of racial epithets in the American language," he said. "It's an interesting word. It can be a hateful word; it can be a term of affection. It has a lot of range."
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