Welton Irie drops the N-Bomb?

[Funky Punk]

i hear it now. i thought the lyric was "anything him do, all near gossip"

I'd heard:

"Anything him do, all make a scene"

[flashman]

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[kalcidis]

The worst N-bomb must have been dropped by Eek-A-Mouse though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlfu65YKxyE

[jayb]

i thought you meant nuclear bomb for a minute! - as i see it blacks often use the N word amongst themselves - where its is quite acceptable - however if a white person uses it in relation to a black person - whole different story and will usually be seen as demeaning /derogatory /racist /unacceptable etc - it's all about who says it - to whom and in what context.......

[Congo Bunny]

I'm aware that in Jamaica, 'pickney' (or 'pickaninny') isn't considered a racial slur, and you hear that quite often in reggae. That raises eyebrows sometimes in other countries, I think...

(because over here, calling a black kid a 'pickney' would be about as nasty as calling him a 'niglet')

I thought pickney was just a term for a child, is it specifically a black child in a derogatory sense then?

[Funky Punk]

I thought pickney was just a term for a child, is it specifically a black child in a derogatory sense then?

It can be, depending on who says it. It has connotations of slavery, I think...

[unorthodoxconqueror]

Congo Bunny wrote :
I thought pickney was just a term for a child, is it specifically a black child in a derogatory sense then?

It can be, depending on who says it. It has connotations of slavery, I think...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaninny

i never heard the word used in a derogatory way before. like congo bunny, i just assumed it was jamaican slang for a child and nothing else.

[Mick Sleeper]

I have always loved that Welton Irie tune and find it completely hilarious. The complete lyric is:

*You shouldn't leave your yard and nah eat breakfast
Me say you get get dizzy and faint in the park
Then dirty nigger come and dem a pass dem remark*

Which I have never interpreted as "crass", "distasteful" or even "out of place". Nigger is an ugly word, but it's a fact that black people use it amongst themselves as an insult. End of story.

Many white people are very scared of the word *nigger* and give it weird aliases like "n-word" or "n-bomb", which I have always found strange. As long as you're not calling anyone a nigger, I see no need to be afraid of the word.

[Funky Punk]

I have always loved that Welton Irie tune and find it completely hilarious. The complete lyric is:

You shouldn't leave your yard and nah eat breakfast
Me say you get get dizzy and faint in the park
Then dirty nigger come and dem a pass dem remark

Which I have never interpreted as "crass", "distasteful" or even "out of place". Nigger is an ugly word, but it's a fact that black people use it amongst themselves as an insult. End of story.

Many white people are very scared of the word nigger and give it weird aliases like "n-word" or "n-bomb", which I have always found strange. As long as you're not calling anyone a nigger, I see no need to be afraid of the word.

I don't particularly feel comfortable using that word, is all. I do realize that not every usage of the word is an racist incident, but I don't use it in real life, so I don't use it online.

I do swear in real life - a lot. But I suppose that there have been certain words that I was brought up to know are more hurtful and offensive than others.

[Gabranth]

The word "n-bomb" is from Method Man in the movie How High feat Redman.

Well many black people today use the word like white guys use the word "dude".

Another tune from Eekamouse where he drops the n-bomb is on the LP The mouse and the man. I think the track is called "School boy".