It's impossible to understand Oakland if you're not from here, Short did a good job explaining though. People don't understand our culture. There is no city on Earth like Oakland that I've visited.
He don’t speak for everyone in Oakland there are plenty of people in Oakland who do not agree with this, I’ve seen Mexican, Asians and whites get checked for using nigga.
@@ourtruth216 I don't think Mexican get checked by any black dude , Mexican runing the city since 1920 homey ! They controle the street the drugs the guns , Mexicans cartel the biggest gangs in earth never had made in all history of gangs , what you guys got ?bfm ?? Big meech 🤣🤣🤣🤣 please don't make me laugh ask any white Politicians who's the most dangerous ppls on American they all gonna say Mexicans!! So you really thinks crois and bloods gonna check Mexicans 🤣🤣🤣 woke up just the cartel of sinanoa wash every black street in America!!!! Faxxx we make.moneyes Donald Trump bush Obama scared of us! El chapo the second biggest youngster ever just behind Escobar ( also Latino) were the game homey you guys can't f with us in any way maybe only on basketball you're better , but hey listen who's care about basketball anyways 🤣🤣🤣
too short is right i grew up around alot of black guys who became my good friends but i still didnt use the word only a couple of them i felt like were like a brother to me and i used it around them but even then i still dont go around saying it every chance i get
Black people aren't offended by you edgy white guys using the word. They're offended by what you mean, by what comes out of your heart when you use the word. There aren't too many opportunities for you to use it positively.
True but liberals and leftist are fucking it all up. I grew up all black culture til like middle school so I kinda identify with black culture and Short is on point. I got one thing to say to my black brothers and sisters. The government only recognize your right to bare arms and protect your family for bout what? 150 years? If it's politics like short suggests, ask yourself which party wants to restrict your rights to guns and ammo? Armed Americans have teeth.
@@avideorecord3585 My thing with it is this, as a mixed man. I don’t think you can relate to what us minorities suffer on a daily basis due to white people and what’s happened in history. Now do I think black people should say the word? No most educated brotha’s and sista’s don’t. The word is derogatory for anyone to say. Just cause you grew up around black people don’t mean you understand they struggles. White people don’t get racially profiled like blacks do, you also don’t understand the hood and how hard it is for us brotha’s to escape it alive. This is a common misconception about the culture part. It’s not culture based the word is race based. We as black men and women are the only ones who use a derogatory word to greet each other and it’s always confused me once I educated myself. I now no longer say the word because it needs to be forgotten.
@@zachariah1990 you say if white people grew up around black people they dont understand the struggles, then you said white people dont get profiled or understand the hood. id like to say to that - thats bullshit. i was born an raised in Detroit, sold dope, ran the streets.. you gonna tell me i dont know about the hood? you gonna tell me cops never threw me against a wall for no reason other than how i was dressed and what area i was in? i mean maybe YOUR experience is that way but i for damn sure not gonna let someone tell me i dont know about the hood and the struggles of making it out alive. i had homies shot in front of my house and killed, i had people stabbed in front of my house and killed. ive been the only white mufucka at a cookout lol.. black AND mexican cookouts. so dont pull some "you dont know our sttruggle" bullshit - because its the same struggle everybody in the hood faces - black people in detroit aint got it no better or worse than white people in detroit - or ANY impoverished city for that matter. i never had anybody pull some "dont say nigga" shit to me but i also try not to say it because i think it just aint a good look in a porfessional manner, granted sometimes that shit slip out when you chillin with the crew. but i mean i been called nigga my entire damn life by black people, grew up on hiphop, so ya it becomes part of your vocabulary. idk thats my opinion tho. but you def wrong trying to say nobody can understand black peoples struggles or they dont know the hood or how deadly it is.
@@DrippUP Eminem created a lot of delusion in you white boys, you don’t know the hood. You think cause you have black friends you know our struggle you don’t. Your people did my people wrong so when you say the word it has a double meaning under and by us keeping it alive it gives power back to the white men who used it to keep us down. There is a reason people with your skin color don’t come to my hood I grew up in Compton and you wouldn’t make it here that’s a fact. Nothing you said shows you know us blacks struggle, all you did was push the delusion 8 Mile gave you. Us blacks are profiled often in stores by cops because of our skin color etc. you people are not. Also say the word around the dudes I grew up with in Compton they would end you and leave you in a ditch. Again when you white people say it, it has a double meaning under cause a lot of your ancestors did my people wrong. That is why us blacks are ready to scrap when a white person says it. You being white proves in multiple statistics the advantages you have when it comes to not being profiled by people cause of your skin color etc. you will never understand it cause you are white. By us blacks saying the word we are giving power back to the white people, your ancestors who put us in chains cause that is what they called us to put us down. Go to any all black neighborhood and say the word. You won’t cause you know the consequences. This thing of oh I know the struggle cause I got black friends you don’t end of story.
@@DrippUP So in short you do not know the hood and I promise you, you wouldn’t make it in my neighborhood acting tough like you just did. None of that carries even a inch of merit. The mere fact you think it’s cool to say that word cause you have black friends just further proves my point of how your ancestors taught you to use it to keep my people down.
That nigga, right. It's just not so black and white, a lot of things have to be considered, like region, age, familiarity with your company, the presentation and representation of how you carry yourself, and most importantly, the context.
Black people like Short, Snoop dog and other rappers should stop using the N word. People around the world feel that it's a just another cool black word.
He couldn't have said it better, it's the culture you grow up in. I went down to Kansas a few years ago to visit my brother. While in town he took me to a Vietnamese market and while in the market he started to talk to this full blooded Mexican guy, but in Vietnamese. I was like WTF?!? My brother then told me as we left the market that he's been around Vietnamese all his life. Trippy thing too was he could speak fluent Spanish as well!
What Short just described at the end is a beautiful thing. Everybody saying nigga this nigga that, everybody from different races vibing with each other, saying nigga freely and nobody is tripping. Now that's liberation.
I grew up around Blacks and Mexicans all my life, that was my family, that was my culture. I'm white, I've never felt comfortable around my own white skin. I've never used the N-word once but I talk Black/Mexican n I dress that culture. I got shit in school for it but I didn't care cuz i knew who I was.
Too Short is one wise ass dude,,people dont know who he is anymore but i remember back in the "Life is.... TOO SHORT" days,,and god damn that shit had the streets off the fuckin hook with the 808s!!
Makes sense, just like the Chris Rock bit about singing along to Snoop songs. Short should've elaborated more at the end because you can kinda liken the way his buddy Black says it like how people say "dude."
I don't disagree with you. What you are describing is internalized oppression. You are one of the first of people on youtube (that I've seen) to call jail slavery, which is true. I am on your side. Its still not Afrikan Americans fault, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't raise awareness. We must break the chains and give every young black man the opportunity to think rationally. I was just simply putting a word to what you were saying (internalized oppression). Keep spreading the word!! :)
What were your thoughts on him before? Too Short is a legend who has been making both club hits and socially impacting songs for more than 20 years bruh
I'm white married black. I was dat onlt white dude in the hood back in da day. I look at it like this. If my wife's grandpa would have a problem and felt it was disrespecting then I gotta respect that and it's history. I don't say it but I do agree wit ya short dog.
When I say it's not her "culture" I don't mean blacks have the privilege of saying it. I mean she doesn't truly understand what it is like to walk in a black persons shoes so she does not understand how a black person feels when the word is used. Nobody should use the word people should just invest in a dictionary or thesaurus
If we don't see no colors there aren't rules for different colors, period.. Nothing but love, i'm just always trying to make sure i'm not being a hypocrite.
+BrandonA RealNigga Yo finally somebody thinks like I do... :D :) I am white and I am from Serbia and couple of mine homeboys listen to 2pac regullary and when we use the term we mean that... :)
+BrandonA RealNigga I dont think tupac could spell accomplished. Look for better roll models than a goofball with thug life on his stomach and sunned down in the streets
I never knew that too short was so articulate. He's like a gangster nerd. I hope those white rappers know to keep that saying the n word in there circle and neighborhood. Its dangerous out here
truth, you wouldn't talk slang and cuss with your friends like you would your grandma....it's all cultural and based around shared experience and respect
I think for certain groups it's a term of endearment but other people that use this term for people of a darker hue one has to question their intention too short expressed that in a somewhat intelligent way
Thank god this video exists and someone has finally basically gotten this debate correct. I just watched Yelawolf talking about this issue and I was so mad. He just totally didn't get . Too Short is a smart smart guy. He basically spelled it all out. There's not a much better way to explain it than the way he just did.
I said the N-Word all the time growing up, and I never seen it as being wrong, because all of my friends said it, and said it to me! I stopped saying it when I was around 14, but sometimes it comes back to me when I hear the homies saying it, but I still stick with NOT saying it!
both , its like when people say ''proud to be an american'' if your born into america you cant help that but your proud to be here , but my point was it makes you stronger to be able to ignore someones ignorance and racism not soft
now thats real talk. my boy anthony calls me nigga from time to time (hes vietnamese) but not around other black people cuz he knows they might not play that shit.
I didn’t even watch until now and already knew what short was gonna say and I say this over and over the bay is not like any where else we so intertwined with so many races that we don’t see color we see family...
i live in Oakland the word nigga out here basically translate to "dude/guy". everybody says it dudes girls lil kids black white asian mexican. its just a word. i dont think the black folk really trip if they see that you from the hood. but i get the politic side of it though and as i grow older im more conscious of that word. like i seen some lil mexicans kid calling each other nigga at the laundry mat one day and i was just like damnn. smh
here were i live in South Central L.A all you see is Hispanic and Black people, we get along just fine kick it together. Black people call us niggas we do too, we homies.
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This answer really hit the nail on the head. You may get away with it somewhere, but when you're not there, act as if you say it nowhere.
Not really just know your intent when you say it, mostly we dont care cause we all one in the same....
these videos of too short are too short man
I see what you did there.
@@YesImJoeKing oh really tell me I haven't figured it out
your puns are too short
Right lol
Too shorts the realest,man. love this legend right here
Too Short is down to earth
Now that is real, stay real!!
if people don't understand after hearing this, because he clearly explained it, then they are too emotional and will never understand it.
This is absolutely spot on.
Finally! This is the most intelligent insight on the subject I have ever heard. Thank you Too Short
Too $hort should change his name to
•Too Real•
He's living wayy to real
Short Dogg broke down this drama the best
It's impossible to understand Oakland if you're not from here, Short did a good job explaining though. People don't understand our culture. There is no city on Earth like Oakland that I've visited.
He don’t speak for everyone in Oakland there are plenty of people in Oakland who do not agree with this, I’ve seen Mexican, Asians and whites get checked for using nigga.
@@ourtruth216 I don't think Mexican get checked by any black dude , Mexican runing the city since 1920 homey ! They controle the street the drugs the guns , Mexicans cartel the biggest gangs in earth never had made in all history of gangs , what you guys got ?bfm ?? Big meech 🤣🤣🤣🤣 please don't make me laugh ask any white Politicians who's the most dangerous ppls on American they all gonna say Mexicans!! So you really thinks crois and bloods gonna check Mexicans 🤣🤣🤣 woke up just the cartel of sinanoa wash every black street in America!!!! Faxxx we make.moneyes Donald Trump bush Obama scared of us! El chapo the second biggest youngster ever just behind Escobar ( also Latino) were the game homey you guys can't f with us in any way maybe only on basketball you're better , but hey listen who's care about basketball anyways 🤣🤣🤣
they should have wiggas vs brackas
Brackas lolololest!! Lets make it trend
I feel you 100
too short is right i grew up around alot of black guys who became my good friends but i still didnt use the word only a couple of them i felt like were like a brother to me and i used it around them but even then i still dont go around saying it every chance i get
Black people aren't offended by you edgy white guys using the word. They're offended by what you mean, by what comes out of your heart when you use the word. There aren't too many opportunities for you to use it positively.
True but liberals and leftist are fucking it all up. I grew up all black culture til like middle school so I kinda identify with black culture and Short is on point. I got one thing to say to my black brothers and sisters. The government only recognize your right to bare arms and protect your family for bout what? 150 years? If it's politics like short suggests, ask yourself which party wants to restrict your rights to guns and ammo? Armed Americans have teeth.
@@avideorecord3585 My thing with it is this, as a mixed man. I don’t think you can relate to what us minorities suffer on a daily basis due to white people and what’s happened in history. Now do I think black people should say the word? No most educated brotha’s and sista’s don’t. The word is derogatory for anyone to say. Just cause you grew up around black people don’t mean you understand they struggles. White people don’t get racially profiled like blacks do, you also don’t understand the hood and how hard it is for us brotha’s to escape it alive. This is a common misconception about the culture part. It’s not culture based the word is race based. We as black men and women are the only ones who use a derogatory word to greet each other and it’s always confused me once I educated myself. I now no longer say the word because it needs to be forgotten.
@@zachariah1990 you say if white people grew up around black people they dont understand the struggles, then you said white people dont get profiled or understand the hood.
id like to say to that - thats bullshit. i was born an raised in Detroit, sold dope, ran the streets.. you gonna tell me i dont know about the hood? you gonna tell me cops never threw me against a wall for no reason other than how i was dressed and what area i was in? i mean maybe YOUR experience is that way but i for damn sure not gonna let someone tell me i dont know about the hood and the struggles of making it out alive. i had homies shot in front of my house and killed, i had people stabbed in front of my house and killed. ive been the only white mufucka at a cookout lol.. black AND mexican cookouts. so dont pull some "you dont know our sttruggle" bullshit - because its the same struggle everybody in the hood faces - black people in detroit aint got it no better or worse than white people in detroit - or ANY impoverished city for that matter. i never had anybody pull some "dont say nigga" shit to me but i also try not to say it because i think it just aint a good look in a porfessional manner, granted sometimes that shit slip out when you chillin with the crew. but i mean i been called nigga my entire damn life by black people, grew up on hiphop, so ya it becomes part of your vocabulary.
idk thats my opinion tho. but you def wrong trying to say nobody can understand black peoples struggles or they dont know the hood or how deadly it is.
@@DrippUP Eminem created a lot of delusion in you white boys, you don’t know the hood. You think cause you have black friends you know our struggle you don’t. Your people did my people wrong so when you say the word it has a double meaning under and by us keeping it alive it gives power back to the white men who used it to keep us down. There is a reason people with your skin color don’t come to my hood I grew up in Compton and you wouldn’t make it here that’s a fact. Nothing you said shows you know us blacks struggle, all you did was push the delusion 8 Mile gave you. Us blacks are profiled often in stores by cops because of our skin color etc. you people are not. Also say the word around the dudes I grew up with in Compton they would end you and leave you in a ditch. Again when you white people say it, it has a double meaning under cause a lot of your ancestors did my people wrong. That is why us blacks are ready to scrap when a white person says it. You being white proves in multiple statistics the advantages you have when it comes to not being profiled by people cause of your skin color etc. you will never understand it cause you are white. By us blacks saying the word we are giving power back to the white people, your ancestors who put us in chains cause that is what they called us to put us down. Go to any all black neighborhood and say the word. You won’t cause you know the consequences. This thing of oh I know the struggle cause I got black friends you don’t end of story.
@@DrippUP So in short you do not know the hood and I promise you, you wouldn’t make it in my neighborhood acting tough like you just did. None of that carries even a inch of merit. The mere fact you think it’s cool to say that word cause you have black friends just further proves my point of how your ancestors taught you to use it to keep my people down.
That nigga, right. It's just not so black and white, a lot of things have to be considered, like region, age, familiarity with your company, the presentation and representation of how you carry yourself, and most importantly, the context.
This is the smartest commentary i have ever heard on this subject! These rappers are smarter than what most think.
Black people like Short, Snoop dog and other rappers should stop using the N word. People around the world feel that it's a just another cool black word.
He couldn't have said it better, it's the culture you grow up in. I went down to Kansas a few years ago to visit my brother. While in town he took me to a Vietnamese market and while in the market he started to talk to this full blooded Mexican guy, but in Vietnamese. I was like WTF?!? My brother then told me as we left the market that he's been around Vietnamese all his life. Trippy thing too was he could speak fluent Spanish as well!
Pho
@@MackABD pho real
Too $hort is the shit, respect. Ole dude came overseas to support the troops a couple years ago and still doin his thang.
This is the best response to this question I've ever seen and ever will see.
What Short just described at the end is a beautiful thing. Everybody saying nigga this nigga that, everybody from different races vibing with each other, saying nigga freely and nobody is tripping. Now that's liberation.
Thats the most thorough explanation ever...PERIOD!!!! Thank you Sir Too Short!
Hahaha in Houston, "grimy ass southern boys" lol
Very well said.
Hey bro Thanks for keeping it real, for along time
Probably the best take on that subject I've heard.
I grew up around Blacks and Mexicans all my life, that was my family, that was my culture. I'm white, I've never felt comfortable around my own white skin. I've never used the N-word once but I talk Black/Mexican n I dress that culture. I got shit in school for it but I didn't care cuz i knew who I was.
I am done. Nigga is a word no one should use period. Respect the history.Black people respect your ancestors.
Man, he jus put all my thoughts on this in words perfectly.
The ignorance of some people will never be out shined. CASE AND POINT above me.
Very true...good information..intelligently...Thanx Too Short for keeping it real
this interview made me respect Too $hort alot more haha
Too Short keeps it OG legendary bay area trill thats why I love the older generation man, I wish more interviews of his by vlad surface
damn, too short is intelligent haha
Too shorts a real dude and says some real stuff about this topic... word.
Smart Man . This is honestly the ONLY way to see this topic. Sense.
Too Short is one wise ass dude,,people dont know who he is anymore but i remember back in the "Life is.... TOO SHORT" days,,and god damn that shit had the streets off the fuckin hook with the 808s!!
$hort, its no wonder I grew up listening to you bro. Keep on rockin it man.
Short's and Immortal Techniques interviews on this were legit
Makes sense, just like the Chris Rock bit about singing along to Snoop songs. Short should've elaborated more at the end because you can kinda liken the way his buddy Black says it like how people say "dude."
he had the best answer to the question real talk
It's all about respect and intent.
IM NOT ROCKING WITH THAT SHORT
Thank you. I don't say the word, but this how I grew up in sumter, sc. I been preaching this over cancel culture. I feel heard. Thank you
"IGNORANCE IS BLISS"
I don't disagree with you. What you are describing is internalized oppression. You are one of the first of people on youtube (that I've seen) to call jail slavery, which is true. I am on your side. Its still not Afrikan Americans fault, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't raise awareness. We must break the chains and give every young black man the opportunity to think rationally. I was just simply putting a word to what you were saying (internalized oppression). Keep spreading the word!! :)
The realest comment ever
wow I'm impressed. very well thought out sensible articulate response that make logical sense. changes my thoughts on him totally.
What were your thoughts on him before? Too Short is a legend who has been making both club hits and socially impacting songs for more than 20 years bruh
I'm white married black. I was dat onlt white dude in the hood back in da day. I look at it like this. If my wife's grandpa would have a problem and felt it was disrespecting then I gotta respect that and it's history. I don't say it but I do agree wit ya short dog.
It doesn't matter if V-Nasty uses it around her "homies" it's not her culture!!! SHE'S NOT BLACK!!!
When I say it's not her "culture" I don't mean blacks have the privilege of saying it. I mean she doesn't truly understand what it is like to walk in a black persons shoes so she does not understand how a black person feels when the word is used. Nobody should use the word people should just invest in a dictionary or thesaurus
Best answer to date and relatable to LA 100%.
100%. i say the same exact thing, i never heard anyone in hiphop say it the way it needed to be said.
Too Short's response: In Cali we chillin
Short did a good brake down still my man keepin it funky n simple
Best explanation ever.
If we don't see no colors there aren't rules for different colors, period.. Nothing but love, i'm just always trying to make sure i'm not being a hypocrite.
you from the 214 huh? i used to live there cuz
I am a N.I.G.G.A.2 pacs definition- Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished.
+BrandonA RealNigga Yo finally somebody thinks like I do... :D :) I am white and I am from Serbia and couple of mine homeboys listen to 2pac regullary and when we use the term we mean that... :)
+BrandonA RealNigga I dont think tupac could spell accomplished. Look for better roll models than a goofball with thug life on his stomach and sunned down in the streets
Wonderboy1126 There's a lot of interviews of tupac. Go look them up and see how deep he gets.
like 6 feet deep. good enough
Wonderboy1126 lol you trolls these days
I never knew that too short was so articulate. He's like a gangster nerd. I hope those white rappers know to keep that saying the n word in there circle and neighborhood. Its dangerous out here
Maybe the most neutral and objective I talk I ever heard about that topic
Hip hop is not about being ashamed of being white its about uplifting black people. I hate how rappers are sellout now I miss tupac.
I think he gave the best explanation. Understand the politics
Big up Shortz...well said / perfect answer.
It's Culture...but it's also Politics / Political...
Too Short is Too Real! always says real shit
Short seems like a chill cool dude and just real.never thought of that culture of how you grew up
$hort Dog well said
truth, you wouldn't talk slang and cuss with your friends like you would your grandma....it's all cultural and based around shared experience and respect
Love you $hort Dog. One of the most influential entertainers of the last 30 years!!
Its either every1 says it or no1 can say it
Well said man!
His point was pretty well spoken
Ironically this is in my recommendations
Too Short is the TRUTH! You gotta love this man!
Is that Left Brain at 1:50? the fuck
2:04...H-Town shoutout!!
yes dont play with H-Town. $hort been the first down south if not Master P
Too Short is right. Get him his own TV show, ASAP!
favorite rapper til this day...
the bit i get is the end. reminds of boondocks with riley and his teacher...
I think for certain groups it's a term of endearment but other people that use this term for people of a darker hue one has to question their intention too short expressed that in a somewhat intelligent way
Too Short The Legend
Thank god this video exists and someone has finally basically gotten this debate correct. I just watched Yelawolf talking about this issue and I was so mad. He just totally didn't get . Too Short is a smart smart guy. He basically spelled it all out. There's not a much better way to explain it than the way he just did.
I said the N-Word all the time growing up, and I never seen it as being wrong, because all of my friends said it, and said it to me! I stopped saying it when I was around 14, but sometimes it comes back to me when I hear the homies saying it, but I still stick with NOT saying it!
ITS VERY LOUD IN HERE
Paul Wall has been fucking putting in work.
Usually those dudes are your t.v news anchors
both , its like when people say ''proud to be an american'' if your born into america you cant help that but your proud to be here , but my point was it makes you stronger to be able to ignore someones ignorance and racism not soft
Imma beat too short 😂😂! He be killing me
Best answer to this question...Now stop fukking asking it Vlad
I remember too short and kid rock together and kid rock would say the n word
Daniel Hill kid rock got his pass revoked IN his own town in detroit.
Now that’s some real talk
THATS THE SAME SHIT I FEEL....stay in your lame if u dont know a person like that
Short dog know what he talkin bout
now thats real talk. my boy anthony calls me nigga from time to time (hes vietnamese) but not around other black people cuz he knows they might not play that shit.
WORD! I'm FROM EAST OAKLAND!
I didn’t even watch until now and already knew what short was gonna say and I say this over and over the bay is not like any where else we so intertwined with so many races that we don’t see color we see family...
Real talk! I'm from east Oakland and I couldn't said it better! Use that word at home NOT in ur music cuz folks in other states won't get it!
i live in Oakland the word nigga out here basically translate to "dude/guy". everybody says it dudes girls lil kids black white asian mexican. its just a word. i dont think the black folk really trip if they see that you from the hood. but i get the politic side of it though and as i grow older im more conscious of that word. like i seen some lil mexicans kid calling each other nigga at the laundry mat one day and i was just like damnn. smh
Hes made complete sense.
If you've seen the movie fresh and peeped how those kids were talkin, that's a similar culture shorts speakin on.
here were i live in South Central L.A all you see is Hispanic and Black people, we get along just fine kick it together. Black people call us niggas we do too, we homies.