Is Ron Isley serious with this???

[Pull Up the Roots]

This is straight up shameful.

This wicked ass culture got our elders calling themselves n*ggers.

This crap is happening everywhere.

 

[-DMP-]

It was straight. Let the OGs experiment in peace.

 

[King Poetic]

Charlie Wilson is the blueprint

Stay in your lane but also just sing hooks on rappers albums like Charlie did for UGK AND SNOOP

 

[Zero]

If You Were Ok With All The shyt They Did In That R Kelly Era Then What’s Wrong With This?

Came in here to post this. Yall are shameless with the fake outrage

 

[African Peasant]

If You Were Ok With All The shyt They Did In That R Kelly Era Then What’s Wrong With This?

What's this comparison?

They made GOAT music with Kelz.

This is uber crap.

 

[Matt504]

This crap is happening everywhere.

Powerful video.



He calls out all of the common retorts we see on here.

 

[African Peasant]

yall pull this song out your ass every time to justify some bullshyt
there was a huge difference between that and what we got happening now

They ALWAYS bring these two songs.

 

[African Peasant]

why can't we let people evolve?
reminds of when babyface worked with the neptunes

and thought he was lenny kravitz
n!ggas wasn't havin it.

Evolve?

The Isley Bro are devolving.

 

[Mindfield333]

This is straight up shameful.

This wicked ass culture got our elders calling themselves n*ggers.

Yeah he’s definitely from that era where they ain’t just say n*gga all Willy nilly

 

[Zero]

What's this comparison?

They made GOAT music with Kelz.

This is uber crap.

Like he and Kelly weren't cussing up a storm on them records

Of course...yall would know that if you listened to them

 

[Matt504]

Like he and Kelly weren't cussing up a storm on them records

Of course...yall would know that if you listened to them

Nobody is mentioning cussing fam.

Ron Isley wasn't running around referring to himself as an anti-Black term and he's been making music longer than hip hop has even existed, literally landed his first major record deal in 1959.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

To be fair....we had a thing called Dirty Blues.

Old school folks from the 1930's would make Cardi B/City Girls etc., sound like a nursery rhyme:

Don’t worry buddy. People act like Eazy E was the first to say nikka since Reconstruction

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

Good for them staying relevant

 

[Matt504]

Don’t worry buddy. People act like Eazy E was the first to say nikka since Reconstruction

The woman in the song didn't say it.

But to your point, NWA is literally that spearheaded the use of that term in Black music. Prior to NWA, you won't find it in Black music outside of Bob Marley in "Get up Stand up" when he says: "Don't be a n*gger in your neighborhood"