John Mellencamp has explained why he thinks rappers, even Black ones, should not use the N-word in their songs.During his appearance on a new episode of Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, the singer-songwriter reflected on his 2001 collab with Chuck D ‘Cuttin’ Heads’ and discussed some of the song’s more contentious lyrics.Recalling the collaboration with the Public Enemy frontman, Mellencamp said: “Me and Chuck D did a song 20 years ago.
We were talking about the N-word. We were talking about how it’s not supposed to be used… That’s what I have against – not against, but why I’m not a big fan of rap music.
You guys are selling out what the people stood up for and fought for, and you’re making money off of it selling it to white kids?
I don’t like it.”He continued: “And so Chuck D and I did a song… I wrote the song and, then he rapped in the middle of it, and he just said ‘die, N-word, die.’ That’s right.”Mellencamp and Maher proceeded to have an uncomfortable debate on the topic of whether or not life for Black people had improved within the US over the past decades.
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