What was I supposed to do with that second verse, when the rapper dropped the N-word twice in quick succession?Īs I listened to more and more hip hop, my appreciation for the genre became overshadowed by what was an obvious dilemma and all-too-relevant question. Some of the best bars of ‘Ye’s career sprawled across my middle school notebooks, though I kept running into a very specific problem. The Louis Vuitton Don himself ( Kanye West Lollapalooza Chile 2011 1 by rodrigoferrari / CC BY-SA 2.0) I decided that above anything else, I needed to commit the whole Genius page to memory. I had listened to rap for quite some time by then, but that indistinguishable beat, that incredible third verse - everything about it was so enthralling. Yet even for something that seemed so simple, things only became more confusing.įlash forward to when I was 11 and I heard Kanye West’s “Power” for the first time, after which I promptly rushed home and gleefully looked up the lyrics on my iPod Touch. Even as a young kid, the tone in which my grandma spoke made me comprehend the taboo stemming from the N-word to this day, I have always made it a conscious point to never, ever say it. She talked about how slave owners used the word in a derogatory fashion, treating their property as less than human, and how the word continued to linger for the years to come. Horrified at my utterance of the word, my grandma swept me into the living room to explain its history. I’m not sure how exactly the word came up, though I do remember one thing: confused as to its meaning, I posed the question to my grandma. I first heard the N-word when I was eight.
“Chillin’ with my n-words, say it like a white kid” - Childish Gambino, “Freaks and Geeks” What followed was a clear glimpse into a supposedly open-and-shut case that has proven to be anything but. I’m not a huge fan of Lil Uzi Vert, and besides, the newly-released Blade Runner 2049 wasn’t gonna just watch itself.Įventually, though, as events are wont to proceed in the modern world, someone posted about A&O’s two meticulously-crafted sentences on social media. I wasn’t planning on going to Blowout, so I didn’t see the message - which was penned by Wyatt - when it first came out. “Going into the next year, we thought, ‘What’s our policy going to be?’” We’re just going to have to get in front of students’ faces at every opportunity,’” Wyatt, a black former Northwestern student who graduated in the spring, said. “It’s like, ‘OK, Northwestern has a very selective memory. There was precedent, as then-co-chair Louisa Wyatt told me, referencing an op-ed she wrote after a Rae Sremmurd concert hosted by A&O in April 2016. However, the message A&O tried to send did not come out of a vacuum. He then lamented having to pay child support, and suggested Marquise’s mother expected more after having a child with him.The message also appeared on the video board at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago before the performance started (Photo by Colin Boyle/Daily Northwestern)Īt first glance, this statement might seem rather straightforward. “This n***a’s crazy, you 25-years-old why you still talking about child support,” he said in the clip, which also recapped his recent shows in Germany. In a post on Instagram, Fif responded to the situation with a video of himself enjoying a cigar from a bathtub. But, if it takes me paying him for his time, I’m more than willing to do that.” … If we do have a sit down I don’t necessarily know what to expect, or what it looks like. “It’s never been about the money for me, it’s more so the relationship… If it’s about the money then I’m willing to put it up to at least make the situation a little better, if possible.
“He believes that, from his perspective, he thinks I’m entitled when that’s not the case,” he told TMZ. Marquise said he would pay his dad one month of child support ($6,700) for “just 24hr of his time,” suggesting that he didn’t get to do everything he wanted with his father while growing up. His comments come after he shared a picture on Instagram next to the word “entitled” spelled out in $100 bills. We should be able to agree and disagree, and not be a problem.” I mean, like, we’re both men at the end of the day. … I’m definitely willing to sit down with him and get his perspective, and gain a little bit of understanding.
“I don’t even know if a sit down can actually restore the situation, it’s more so it’s an olive branch,” said Marquise in an interview with TMZ. 50 Cent’s son Marquise Jackson is ready to talk it out after offering one month of child support to spend 24 hours with his father.
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