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I Went To A Music Festival And Found Cultural Appropriation And White People Saying The N-Word

It's just one word. You don't have to use it.

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I Went To A Music Festival And Found Cultural Appropriation And White People Saying The N-Word
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Recently, Kendrick Lamar called out a fan because she was white and said the N-word. A lot of people can argue that MAAD City wasn’t the best choice for Kendrick to bring a white woman on stage to rap it.

Out of all of the artists, she chose to say the N-word in front of a WOKE musician.

People are saying online, that he set her up.

However, MAAD City, not counting the chorus, only says the N-word 3-4 times in the song.

Why is it so hard for someone to bleep out a word, just a few times?

Last week, I attended the Rolling Loud Festival in Miami. Thousands of people attended the festival, majority of them white, all paying about $300 dollars for a wristband for three days to see a plethora of either upcoming artists or well-known artists.

Sounds like a good deal, right?

If you're a local like me, it is.

Most people going to the festival, that I met, were from out of state. From places as far as California and Seattle.

Add hotel fee.

Add food fee. At the festival $10-15 a plate.

Parking fee. $25 prepaid online, and $30 cash in person.

For three days? That’s not cheap at all.

Many of the people around me were the same age as I was. If I didn’t win these tickets, I wouldn’t have gone.

The only things I paid for, were parking and food OUTSIDE of the festival. Not even the festival tickets, my friend won them.

Here’s a lineup of the artists:

I fought for my life to get to the front and out of the mosh pits, which were foreign to me, especially at a Hip-hop festival. But I never thought that what used to be a Rock, Metal, or Punk, trend would obviously fuse. But with the new emo-rap or punk-rap music culture, mosh-pits galore.

Cultural appropriation must have come with the new music culture too. I’ve never seen so many dreads, cornrows and braids on white people until I arrived at the festival. Not just from the fans, but from the artists too.

Fat Nick

His dreads.

Lil Pump

His dreads as well. He also threw his water and it landed in my mouth.

Pouya

Who is also very talented, but he used the N-word, so he’s canceled until further notice or public apology.

Jack Harlow

Jack Harlow

So does, Jack Harlow. Very talented, but also uses the N-word. Cancelled until further notice, or public apology.

Honestly, I hated it. I was glad when the real performers arrived on stage, which were predominantly black. Besides Post Malone and Action Bronson.

Most of these Black artists, like Kendrick, use the N-word. Majority of the festival goers being white knew all of the words. Not respecting anyone who was black or brown around them, all of them used the N-word.

Chris Brown and Lil Dicky’s Freaky Friday, shows the two artists have switched bodies. And now that Lil Dicky is Chris Brown, a black man.

He can say the N-word. This is still Chris Brown rapping though, so it’s alright, and it wasn’t Lil Dicky rapping.

“Wonder if I can say the n-word (wait for real?)
Wait, can I really say the n-word?
What up, my nigga? (woo) What up, my nigga?
Big ups, my nigga, we up, my nigga
You pussy ass nigga, man, fuck y’all niggas
'Cause I’m that nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga
I’m that nigga”

-Chris Brown, "Freaky Friday."

You would think the white people around us wouldn’t sing this part, they sang it louder than anyone else.

Every time. And the artists on stage did nothing about it. Like Amine’ or Kendrick,

“If you’re white don’t say it.”

It’s just one word. A word that is disrespectful from white to black but is used as a common term from black to black.

I hate when white people say, “It shouldn’t be used by anyone.”

“It doesn’t have a meaning anymore.”

I assure you if a white person called a black person the N-word, it wouldn’t end pretty. White artists like Pouya and Jack Harlow using the N-word shows that they have no respect for the roots of hip-hop or for black people.

Yes, if you’re white, and you use the N-word knowingly, you’re a racist.

I'm not alienating these rappers because I'm a hater, because these men are so talented and all they to do is bleep out one word. It doesn't get you anymore "clout" or brownie points with fans if you use the N-word.

Eminem has never said N-word in his music, and he is one of the best rappers of all time. If he can get that far without saying it being in a black-dominated genre of music, it's not impossible for anyone else.

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