Episode 176: Fat Joe The Blackest N You’ve Ever Seen?

peace i'm zulu king l1 from spears and mike's podcast i'm one of the hosts um i got some thoughts on the fat joe situation saying he's the realest n-word um i personally don't use the n-word not to say that i haven't because i've used it throughout my youth you know i'm saying and um I think it's a nasty word that we shouldn't be using.

When I say we, I mean like all people, especially not racist.

And I don't think it should be used as a term of endearment.

You know what I'm saying? I think that it's very easy to swap out the N-word with bro, homie, son.

god whatever whatever you want to um whatever other type of term of endearment that you choose to replace it with would be a better option um than using the n-word to identify one another or or some type of lingo like a term of endearment you know i'm saying like so when i was younger I would say around 10, 11 years old, brothers in the projects and some of the houses that I grew up with, they'd be like, yo, you my N, you my N.

And eventually, you start to pick up on the lingo as well.

And it's so common amongst Puerto Ricans and Blacks.

And I'm not saying that as saying that it's right, you know what I'm saying? Because it should only be right between...

people that are comfortable with one another.

You know what I'm saying? Like, if you want to use that towards Puerto Ricans in your community and the Puerto Ricans want to use that with the Black brothers in the community, that's between y'all.

Like, some type of understanding or some type of agreement or respect.

You know what I'm saying? But the dynamics of that relationship in the communities that I come from, whether it be Brooklyn, Long Island...

wherever I've lived in my life, it's always been unity.

You know what I'm saying? I've never experienced racism by any Black American, any Afro-Caribbean.

It's always been love.

Now, you know, that's not a, you know, of course, there's always going to be people that dislike one another or people that have um, prejudices amongst one another or jokes and stuff like that.

But I really don't dwell on any of that.

You know what I'm saying? Because I've always been fond and had a, a, a great respect for, um, black American people, Afro Caribbean people.

And that was always reflected towards me and given right back to me.

You know what I'm saying? As a Puerto Rican man and a fair skin Puerto Rican man at that, you know what I'm saying? I'm not Afro, um, latino i don't even identify under any of these things like whether it be calling myself black whether calling myself white whether calling myself um anything beyond being puerto rican you know what i'm saying um even you know some puerto rican brothers that call themselves taino a lot of people are now coming into understanding that taino comes from it's a spanish word it's not even the actual indigenous name that that our people actually carried, you know what I'm saying? I believe the Tainos are originally from the Arawak tribe, you know what I'm saying? And the Spaniards named them the Taino Indian.

So a lot of these identities and things that we choose to call ourselves are questionable.

And I'm never going to identify myself as something that's negative.

You know, I wouldn't carry, you know, there's young brothers in the community, right? Like when I grew up, the five percenters and the Zulus were the most relevant organizations, right? And the Zulus and the five percenters usually will identify themselves with righteous names, you know, like the Brother Knowledge, the Brother Supreme, you know, Brother Righteous, you know what I'm saying, Zulu King Righteous.

You know, these are positive groups, positive names.

You know, you don't call yourself Grimy, Grudge, you know, whatever.