“Chamillionaire says watching white fans singing along on the N-word prompted him to eliminate it from the rhymes on his new album, Ultimate Victory.
“The Houston rapper, whose platinum 2005 album The Sound of Revenge spawned the Grammy-winning hit Ridin’, says he made that decision long before criticism of rap lyrics erupted over CBS Radio shock jock Don Imus’ racially tinged insult of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
Isaiah Thomas said:
“A white man calling a black female ‘bitch,’ that is wrong with me. I am not accepting that. That’s a problem for me,” he said. But asked if he’d have a problem with a black man calling a black woman “bitch,” Thomas said, “Not as much.”
TheStateOf . . . Language. I’m (J) with Chamillionaire on this one. Listening to white people sing “nigger” is not cool. It’s just a basic self-respect thing. As for Isaiah, hmmm, that’s a tough one. I don’t really see a difference.
