The N-Word: Connotation Between Rap And Hip-Hop Music

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The modern age is beginning to bring the n-word into the current culture under the cover of reclamation; more specifically within the rap and hip hop music of today. And with the recent boom of the music genre, more people, not just African Americans, are listening to the music. And each song comes equipped with its own slew of the n-word. But with more non-African American people listening to rap/ hip hop music and with the songs beginning to have the n-word mentioned more within the lyrics, that opens many doors to people who are deemed “unable” to say the n-word. But other than the n-word being widespread within the rap/ hip hop music culture, it is also having a more praise-like connotation being attached to it. The n-word somehow is no