“We grew up saying it.
“We grew up saying it. It wasn’t an insult to us. It was like saying, ‘Yo, what’s up?’” Boxer-turned-musician @edgarberlanga stopped by the show and we went there: the N-word, who gets to say it, and the backlash surrounding @fatjoe, who has defended his use of the word by pointing to his Bronx upbringing, his roots in Black and Latino hip-hop culture, and his Afro-Cuban father. Berlanga’s take: if the word itself is the problem, then maybe everyone needs to stop using it. Where do you draw the line? ~ “Nosotros crecimos diciéndola. Para nosotros no era un insulto. Era como decir: ‘¿Qué vuelta? ¿Qué hay?’” El boxeador y ahora músico Edgar Berlanga pasó por el show y entramos de lleno en un debate que sigue encendiendo las redes: la palabra N, quién puede decirla y la controversia alrededor de Fat Joe, quien ha defendido su uso hablando de cómo creció en el Bronx, sus raíces dentro de la cultura hip-hop negra y latina y el hecho de que su padre era afrocubano. La posición de Berlanga: si el problema es la palabra, entonces quizás nadie debería usarla. ¿Dónde trazas tú la línea?
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