V-Nasty Defends Her Use Of The N-Word

The Bay Area rapper, recently sat down with XXL to talk about her recent project, BAYTL, with rapper Gucci Mane. V-Nasty touches on how she's perceived in the music game and of course her blatant use of the "N-Word".

"Nobody ever actually came to my face and said 'you can't use the N-word," says the female MC, whose received a lot of flake in the media for her usage of the word. Nasty says that she doesn't use the word out of disrespect, but rather it is a term used heavily amongst her community.

Since the ill-conceived notion that she uses the word for publicity, she's vowed to remove the word from her music because its usage isn't what makes her. She wants to be known for more than her negative attributions with the word. She also says that she will continue to use it in her private life but feels that she has more credibility to use it than other people and "if she can't say the N-word then nobody should."

Highlights from the interview:

You were speaking about some of the negativity aimed in your direction earlier, and some of that initially stemmed from your use of the N-word. I'm wondering where you're at with that? Are we gonna hear that on this project?
I don't think so. I don't think I said it on there.

Why was that?
Because I'm working on not using the N-word in my music and stuff. But on an everyday thing when I'm with my friends, I don't feel like I should have to change anything. I just feel like I don't wanna disrespect anybody, because I don't know what other people have been through. It's not like that in my city. I just feel like I'm gonna stop using it in my music, in a public eye. Other than that, I'm gonna continue to be myself.

So you were never using it in a negative way, it was just what you grew up around.Exactly.

Because you feel like you're coming from the same circumstances that whoever's around you is coming from?Yeah I do. In my city, it's the same shit everywhere. But it's not even about—how do I say it? I don't even know. Everybody from the same place. If you using it to each other, you not gaining nothin' from sayin' it.

I feel you. But I think that to people who aren't familiar with that culture from the Bay Area, that the word has a history to where they're not used to—
If they don't like me sayin' it, then they shouldn't like anybody sayin' it, though, is what I'm sayin'. It shouldn't matter what color you are.

Has the use of the 'N-word' become circumstantial or should it still be off limits?

Source: xxlmag.com