Papoose On Hip-Hop's N-Word Usage: It's a Term of Endearment

During such a tense time in America, wrongdoings towards the Black community have been indisputably brought to the limelight more than ever. At the time this interview was recorded with Papoose, South Carolina officials took down the Confederate flag from in front of the state's Capitol building. The BedStuy lyricist concurs that the flag has a racist history, as does the nword, which he feels Caucasian people don't have the right to use.

When it comes to hip-hop, he feels the term is acceptable, as he himself uses it on just about every one of his tracks. "We kinda flipped it now, like, to show that that doesn't affect us anymore...It's more like a term of endearment," Papoose tells us.

Papoose goes on to share his thoughts about Bill Cosby as well. "I didn't understand how they did that, from a legal standpoint," he says of the courts unsealing documents from Cosby's 2005 deposition. "It's something weird about it...It just seems kinda, you know, orchestrated to me. But we never know. We gotta see how it turns out in the end."

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