Found on the webWednesday, March 21st, 2007, (10:13 am)
“The electro funk-daddy superstar break.” Brilliant stuff!
I can’t tell you much about this video other than it won it’s creator, ‘Beardyman‘, £1500 ($2913.3) in the ‘Fame Game’ online video contest.
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Wrote the following comment on Mar 21, 2007 at 5:22 pm
That was very funny!
Wrote the following comment on Mar 21, 2007 at 5:52 pm
haha! he’s a pretty cool guy… me and “theotherrachel” once tried learning beat box (sp?)… if you dont mind getting spit-sprayed a little, its a pretty entertaining thing to watch people try and do.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 22, 2007 at 1:41 am
Wow, Beardyman is the one, Simon great for puttin it on!!
Amazing stuff wish I had him cook me sum beats! Cheers man, Joey.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 22, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Nice wig, and nice beats!
As for the “brass band mix” of that 50 Cent song, the concept is fun though I don’t know why the guy thinks he can use the n-word.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 22, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Well the word “nigga” is in the lyrics of the 50 Cent track, and as this was a straight up cover, why shouldn’t he use the word? Are you suggesting that only black people can use the word “nigga”?
I personally wouldn’t use it, but in an offensive context that word would be offensive to me no matter what race the person using it was. If a black guy says “fuck”, “shit”, “cock-sucker”, “mother-fucker”, “cunt”, or “Nigga/Nigger” they hold the same amount of offense to me as anyone saying them.
I don’t consider “shit” to be a particularly bad word, far far far less offensive as say, “cunt.” But it would depend heavily on the context of the usage. So if one of my friends were to say in jest “fuck you mother fucker!” I would most likely laugh. However if some random guy on the street said that to me I would most certainly take it in an entirely different way.
So while it seems wholly inappropriate for a white boy to go around saying “nigga” this or “nigga” that, I can’t make an acceptable use exception for a black person to use that word.
Imagine this was a work environment, would we reprimand a white guy for saying “nigga” but not deal out the same reprimand if a black guy said it? The word is used widely in the rap world, and even if white rappers don’t use it (and that’s not a rule), they should be as fearless as their black counterparts to use the word for the very same reason that their black counterparts state.
Language changes. The word “nigger” is still considered a very bad word as it should be. However the word “nigga” could be argued to be an entirely new evolution of the old “n word”.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 22, 2007 at 5:23 pm
“Are you suggesting that only black people can use the word “niggaâ€?”
No, I’m suggesting that only black people (and some Hispanics too it seems) can GET AWAY WITH using that word. I understand that it’s a double-standard, as do an increasing number of people. However, the reality is that it has long been socially inacceptable for white people to use that word and we should know better, and support those who are pushing for it to be no longer socially acceptable in the black community as well.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 22, 2007 at 7:42 pm
you said, “they should be as fearless as their black counterparts to use the word for the very same reason that their black counterparts state,” …help me out…what reason do they state?
Wrote the following comment on Mar 22, 2007 at 9:18 pm
A friend of mine who used the term “nigga” in his greetings (“Watup nigga”) said the reason why he was happy to use this term was to “reclaim it from the oppressor” and by using it himself he was “unempowering the word.”
However, I will point out that he pulled up a white friend of his and told him that despite the fact that he could use the “nigga” term, our mutual [white] friend couldn’t.
He doesn’t use the term anymore because his vocabulary grew up.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 23, 2007 at 2:53 pm
well, I dont know that the white man (rapper) should be as fearless to use the word for that reason. If a white man uses the word it in no way “reclaims it from the oppressor” or “unempowers the word”… because the white man is in this instance the oppressor. An oppressor cant reclaim what was his to begin with. just a thought…
Anyways, i’m majoring on a minor, and dont think the word should be used period… along with wetback and cracker. BUT if someone uses a word like that for themselves, because of their own insecurity, or lack of knowledge I can fully understand how and why that happens.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 27, 2007 at 5:53 pm
funk daddy really cool! see ya soon