Wigger Lover

"I'm sorry when I called you that word / tried to say we were brothers when we already were."

Late last summer Baje One of Junk Science (Embedded / Def Jux) sat down for an interview for the "Wigger Please" documentary after the release of their phenomenal track "House Wigger." Now close to a year later, Baje has teamed up with Donnan Linkz for "The N-Word." The track is a dialogue about two friends (one black, one white) who have their close friendship tested when the white friend drops the N-bomb. It's deep, but these two up and coming emcees produce a track that at the end is reminiscent of "early Outkast work":

Download The N-Word at this link.

You can also purchase more Junk Science work at the Def Jux store.

This is the type of hip hop you want to play to someone to give them an education--like Quentin Tarantino. Years ago the director participated in a panel discussion in Brtain and implied that white people who have black friends could freely call them "nigger." From The Guardian:

Question twelve: There was a part of Pulp Fiction which I know we don't want to talk about, but you used the word "nigger" yourself, and I know here if any white guy says "nigger" to a black man, you had better put up or die.

QT: You'd do that to a good friend of yours?

Question thirteen: None of my good white friends call me nigger.

QT: They don't have that kind of relationship with you.

Q13: No, we've got a great relationship.

QT: You might have a very great relationship, but you don't have that kind of relationship.

Q13: I think we have that respect for each other where we aren't going to go there.

QT: Then you are not that kind of guy. Sam Jackson is, and I was in that movie.

Q13: I still don't agree with it, because I know a lot of people - almost every black guy I spoke to who saw the movie was, like, fantastic film, brilliant dialogue, but, hey, he isn't going to get away with that.

QT: I do. (Applause)

All About the Benjamins

Mike Masdea, a "well-respected semi-conductor analyst at Credit Suisse in San Francisco" recently created the following rap for his office voicemail. The message is intended to add a little "color" to messages sent out by his bank that recommended market strategies to perspective clients. Over the beat of Eminem's "Lose Yourself," Masdea asks, "“If you have just one shot, a single opportunity to seize the bottom of the cycle, one moment, would you capture it? Or just let it slip?”

Of course the whole "hip hop" office bureaucrat was done ages ago--and somewhat funnier--by The Onion's Herbert Kornfeld in pieces like "I Gots To Represent At Tha Muthafuckin' Company Picnic," "Human-Resources Bitches Be Makin' Me Take Vacation Days," and "Accountz Reeceevin' Ain't For No Candy-Ass Temps."

There's a concept that works / Twenty million other white rappers emerge

New York Public Radio's Soundcheck recently replayed an episode focusing on white rappers in hip hop and the program is available as a podcast on their website.

Host John Schaefer leads a discussion on why the hip hop scene has not created more popular white rappers after the success of Eminem. Schaefer is joined with author Touré and music critic Jim Faber, who a few years back wrote an article for The NY Daily News profiling several white rappers he believes could be Eminem's heir apparent.

The panel likens successful white rappers to blacks working in Fortune 500 companies and Tiger Woods. The logic is that they all have a mentality to be the best at what they do--not just in their field, but also their race. That concept is going to continue to seem laughable until Kenneth Chenault concludes board meetings with, "Do you ever wonder at what point you got to stop living up here and start living down here?"

"I wish I was in dixie, A.K. A.K."

Take a listen to the track "Seeing Thangs" by David Banner and featuring production by DJ Shadow.

The collab is featured on an upcoming mix tape called "The Dummy Klik Mixtape." Banner raps about a post-Katrina South with "Why George Bush aint in jail for stealin' them votes/ and why the C.IA. ain't closed for pushin' that dope?" As Mike Myers demonstrated it's often difficult for a white artist to stand beside a black man so openly critical of the Bush administration. But remember that Shadow once commented about this regime, "We, the world's only super-power have immense capacity to ease human suffering throughout the world, yet we instead choose [otherwise.] As an American, my government's actions give me cause for great concern."