Posted on 03/13/2015 1:06:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Trinidad James isn’t mad at Beauton Gilbow.
The rapper’s hit song can be heard playing in the background as Gilbow, the house mother of the University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon house — known as Mom B. — repeats the n-word seven times on camera.
It appears overboard considering that the hook of the song, “All Gold Everything,” uses the word only three times per succession. Gilbow has been bombarded with claims that she’s just as racist as the fraternity members caught singing a racist song on a bus last weekend.
It’s an allegation she’s firmly denied, and the Atlanta rapper who wrote “All Gold Everything” is willing to give her a pass, though he wouldn’t condone her use of the word. He doesn’t hate her, though.
“I’m not going to be that person,” he told CNN. “It’s a rock and a hard place. I can’t be as upset at that lady. I’m upset at the fraternity because what they’re saying is a chant that’s just completely disrespectful to the black race. As far as that lady goes — man, that’s an old lady, man. Let that lady be.”
The Trinidad-born rapper, whose real name is Nicholas Williams, said he doesn’t like giving interviews about race and the n-word because his views are complex and hip-hop stars can be hypocrites when it comes to the topics.
“It’s hard to ridicule somebody for something that you continue to use in your music,” he said. “Every (hip-hop) artist is using the n-word in their music — hit records with the n-word in it. You can’t be upset when somebody says it. You can’t. It’s hard to differentiate when you can use it. If we don’t want the word used and the word holds such a negative connotation, then we shouldn’t use it at all, period.”
He compared it to children hearing their parents curse, “and they told you not to curse. You wanted to curse. You cursed.”
‘Humanly impossible’ to be upset
Context matters, he said. If you’re using the word in a negative way, talking down to someone or being sarcastic, that’s wrong.
“But if it’s somebody that you’ve been rocking with or we’re listening to music or whatever, I can’t be upset,” he said. “It’s humanly impossible for you to be upset at a different race saying it when you’re saying it in your music. That’s crazy to me.”
He has a different take on the fraternity members caught clapping, pumping their fists and chanting, “There will never be a ni**** SAE. You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me.”
“I don’t respect that at all. What kind of world are we living in here?” he asked.
He took it personally, he said, because he and other hip-hop artists travel the country to perform for fraternities, and to know any fraternity member would harbor such vile feelings toward him “burns my heart.”
As fellow Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame noted when he canceled an upcoming show for the University of Oklahoma SAEs, Trinidad James said people of all races attend his concerts and have a great time together.
“These fraternities are places that us as hip-hop artists, we come and do amazing shows for these fraternities, like I just did Texas Tech, I just did Texas A&M, Delta Chi, Sigma Chi, and those guys were great. And I’ve done a show actually at Oklahoma last year,” he said. “So to see that that chapter feels that type of way toward the black race, it hurts, man. It sucks.”
If you don’t like me, don’t book me
He even takes a special pride in performing in front of these audiences, he said.
“We go really hard for these college kids. I didn’t go to college, so for me, I feel really good when I can make kids who are doing the right thing and going to college … have a good time because college is so strenuous on the mind and it’s so hard when you’ve got to pay tuition and books, trying to survive as a young adult, so that’s why we try to come and make sure the kids have a great time. If you go look at the shows, it’s an amazing time.”
As far as the chances that he’d ever perform in front of Oklahoma’s SAE chapter in the future, forget about it, he said. He doesn’t care if they were resurrected as an all-black fraternity, he said.
“I don’t want nothing to do with that because that’s ridiculous. I feel like anything they do now is just to cover it up and make it look better,” he said.
And while it’s disturbing to see young people voicing racist leanings, Trinidad James said he’d prefer to know where someone stands over being misled. Fraternities considering booking him in the future can keep that in mind, he said.
“I would rather you didn’t even book me for the shows. I’m not no hired monkey,” he said. “Just don’t be cool with me. Don’t talk to me. If you feel that way about me that you would want to hang me from a tree then don’t talk to me. I would stay away from you because obviously my skin color offends your life.”
Grandma looks sauced.
He wants the rights to the chant so he can make money off it.
I think that’s unfair if you read the whole article.
THEY have protection from society and ethnic groups and the same freedom of speech should be supported for all peiople by the ones that enjoy it the most
HIP HOPPERS STAND UP FOR THE FREE SPEECH OF YOUR BROTHER AND ENEMY ALIKE !!
It’ against the law for a White person to sing along with rap music. How dumb is the White person who buys rap music?
"[T]he hook of [his] song, 'All Gold Everything,' uses the word only three times per succession."
ALL rappers and hip-hoppers are hypocrites. The so-called "music" is built on promoting racism and violence.
It’s against the law for a White person to sing along with rap music.
Whitey can buy the music; he just can’t sing/say/quote the special words.
Mulatos, quadroons, and octoons are allowed to hum along.
Are you a member of SAE?
For those curious about the lyrics to this piece of “music”:
http://genius.com/Trinidad-james-all-gold-everything-lyrics
So, very nice of him to give the old white lady a pass. Otherwise someone might thing that young white ladies, young white men, all sorts of people might not want to listen/buy his filth.
‘’Are you a member of SAE?’’
Don’t you really mean .. Are you now or have you ever been a member of SAE?
I like that new aggiN Dynasty show. It is entertaining.
Let’s face it, America was rushing towards being a color blind country except for the urban areas that are filled with poor and illiterate welfare types that were put there by the racists in the Democrat Party.
Obama is not black, he is half white. The black half is not a descendant of slaves. He and Soros and Holder and the rest of Obamas crew have brilliantly taken the whole country away from all the real problems it has while looting it and the same time.
Only people that hate the country and/or love mohammad would do what they have done.
People that are black are killing each other like crazy in Chicago and Detroit and other parts of the US. Nothing is done about that. Instead we have all this theatre by Obama and the media. I want the black Americans to stop killing each other. I want them to start businesses and make money and fend for themselves. Call me a racist I guess.
Obama is an evil little SOB who has murder in his heart and soul. That includes his black Arabic half and his white communist half.
Boren went way off the reservation on this and he deserves to have his ass sued off.
He’s let gay bashing women beating Joe Mixon come back to the team. The only thing that OU is worried about is their precious football and basketball teams and how this will affect recruiting.
NO NO NO. Whitey crackuh’s said that word... We need Eric Holder on the case. Obama needs to express how ISIS does not represent Islam but how this little chant represents all whitey crackuh’s in college. Rev up the Sharpton shakedown machine.
I hope this is the beginning of the ramp where the race huxters jump the shark. I don’t think anyone cares anymore. “nigga” is ubiquitous in music, movies, culture and used by all races
I knew some SAEs at Kansas State U., Nick. College frat rats are crazy (having been one myself: We were doing “Jackass” stuff before ‘Johnny Knoxville’ was born) but these guys were old-school Animal House.
Their Homecoming float was a garbage truck and they all took turns falling off, throwing up and occasionally going into the crowd looking for fights and women. Most of them were arrested before the parade ended.
Accusing them of being bad boys is like saying, “Hey, that cat with the stripe down his back has a strong smell ...”.
IOW, they never really hurt anyone but themselves.
They were singing along with the song.
Lighten up all you Francises.
If you are black, it is acceptable for you to use the word "nigger."
If you are not black, then it is not.
I'm not sure which words other words are race-differentiated, but this one is.
I recall some upheaval in Washington DC some time ago, because of the use of the word "niggardly" by some politician or other. I think that's OK for white people, but we're supposed to be conscious of the company we use it in, in case they are too stupid to know its meaning.
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