Black People" distinguishes a "nigga", which he defined as a "low-expectation-having motherfucker", from a "black person". Ĭomedian Chris Rock's routine " Niggas vs. Ol' Dirty Bastard uses the term 76 times in his Nigga Please album (not including repetitions in choruses). One of the earliest uses of the term in a popular song was in the lyrics of the 1983 song " New York New York" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, although it had featured in some very early hip hop recordings such as "Scoopy Rap" and "Family Rap", both from 1979. The growing use of the term is often attributed to its ubiquity in modern American hip hop music. The phrase nigga, please, used in the 1970s by comics such as Paul Mooney as "a funny punctuation in jokes about Blacks", is now heard routinely in comedy routines by African-Americans. In addition to African-Americans, other ethnic groups have adopted the term as part of their vernacular, although this usage is very controversial. As of 2007, the word nigga was used more liberally among younger members of all races and ethnicities in the United States. In practice, its use and meaning are heavily dependent on context. Conversely, nigga has been used an example of cultural assimilation, whereby members of other ethnicities (particularly younger people) will use the word in a positive way, similar to the previously mentioned bro or dude. Yet others have derided this as hypocritical and harmful, enabling white racists to use the word and confusing the issue over nigger. Others consider nigga non-offensive except when directed from a non-African-American towards an African-American. Used by black people, the term may indicate "solidarity or affection", similar to the usage of the words dude, homeboy, and bro. Some African-Americans only consider nigga offensive when used by people of other races, seeing its use outside a defined social group as an unwelcome cultural appropriation.
Nigger was and still is a word of disrespect." The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights group, condemns use of both nigga and nigger. Lewis Smith, author of Bury That Sucka: A Scandalous Love Affair with the N-word, believes that "replacing the 'er' with an 'a' changes nothing other than the pronunciation" and the African American Registry notes, "Brother (Brotha) and Sister (Sistah or Sista) are terms of endearment. Many people consider the terms to be equally pejorative, and the use of nigga both in and outside black communities remains controversial. There is conflicting popular opinion on whether there is any meaningful difference between nigga and nigger as a spoken term. I noticed that among this class of colored men the word "nigger" was freely used in about the same sense as the word "fellow," and sometimes as a term of almost endearment but I soon learned that its use was positively and absolutely prohibited to white men. The use of nigger non- pejoratively within the black community was documented in the 1912 book The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson, in which he recounted a scene in New York City around the turn of the century:
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