“I felt it would be fake of me to leave [the word “nigger”] out of the record just so I could look like a better Christian. Being Christian doesn’t mean I’m perfect. It just means I’m forgiven and I strive daily to be better and get closer to God.” — Features : Christian Rapper Explains Jay-Z Diss
What an asshole. Tries to act self-righteous and still use the language he’s supposedly mad at.
Christ. (No pun intended.)
First of all, I don’t care if he uses the n-word (I don’t think language is what Rizzo is mad at as it relates to Jay-Z). The problem I have with this statement is that RIZZO (why’n the fuck is your name RIZZO?) attempts to absorb this with the whole “Being Christian doesn’t mean I’m perfect” bullshit. Why did he feel the need to not only qualify that but qualify it so wackly? Most of the people I know that use the n-word happen to be Christian, but you’ll never hear them say “I’m not perfect” as a way to reconcile poor language with their faith.
Note, Rizzo says “nigga” roughly 13 times in this song. Do you suppose every time he uttered it he thought to himself “I’m not a perfect Christian so I’mma just go ahead and use it anyway”? Probably not. Still, this doesn’t make him an imperfect Christian. It just makes him a lazy rapper that, admittedly, happens to have a potentially decent flow.
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I put this together some time ago because I wanted to illustrate just how dope a mood-setting intro to a Hip-Hop album could be when a producer chooses to steer a bit to the left. De La Soul’s “The Future” (The Grind Date), The Foreign Exchange’s “Title Theme” (Connected) and Little Brother’s “Welcome to the Minstrel Show.” They manage to be a little cinematic without the pretense and are easily within the top tracks of their respective albums.
This shit has to stop. “The Post still fetishizes rappers as the bad boys of the entertainment industry. The vast majority of its hip-hop coverage — I’d say just from the informal survey that I took to find the above examples of faulty labeling, 80 percent of it involves the rappers involved in some sort of crime. As silly as it is, the word “rapper,” still has sensationalistic value at the Post that “R&B star” or “dancehall artist” or “mogul,” just doesn’t. Also, these people who have no idea what they’re talking about regarding pop culture, may hear about a (usually male) black recording artist and just assume that he is a rapper. I’m not saying that these people are racist (although, if they work for the Post, I’m not saying they’re not racist, either), but I am saying they’re lazy, ignorant and prone to stereotyping. That’s all!” — “If he’s black, he must rap” 
Speaking of things that need to