Nas names new album “Nigger”…Why?

Salam, 

First of all i wanna make it clear that Islam eliminates “Racism”, As we know that our Beloved Prophet Muhammad said “no Arab is superior over a non-Arab, and no white is superior over black nor a black over a white and superiority is by righteousness and God-fearing alone (Surah Al-Hujurat, 49.13)

Being a Muslim Brother from Brooklyn i always happen to hear certain words and phrases

1)Chill Yo – Meaning “Relax”, that’s where i got my motto from, so anytime a person try’s to involve you with Haram, You know “Chill Yo Islam Yo”! * Islam is culture friendly * within the parameters of the Shariah

2) Werd – Meaning “You agree with what is being said” and it makes sense to you.

2) Yo What’s Good Nigga? (Not Nigger, Is it the same?) I hear black kids calling each other that all the time, seems like its normative now in their dialogue and almost seems impossible for them to greet each other without dropping that line, not only black kids, but obviously even Muslims who just happen to be a product of their environment and have adopted this.

You can say its “Slang”,Some people hear us speak the way we speak and say we are ignorant, others find it interesting, some get pissed off, and others laugh……Well one thing is for sure, the people speak the way they speak because its part of the street culture and that’s how things happen. Another reason is rappers, some of them use certain terms because thats how they reach their target audience and others because they have been part of gang’s and some just find it as plain “Art”

Now some of you might have heard of a Rapper named “Nas”, Nas, given name Nasir means “helper and protector” in Arabic. He grew up in Brooklyn and has become one of top hip hop artists in history. He’s currently signed to def Jam under Jay-Z, the El Presidente, Well any hows “Nas” is a little weird, Although I personally don’t listen to him anymore because of the shirk he says in his songs. “Astugfurillah” I hope Inshallah Brothers Listening to him stop. In one of his Albums he played “Surah Naas to Open it up “……

He also has said this

“A lot of rules, some locked in solitude,
Curse the day of they birthy confused, who’s to be praised?
The mighty dollar, or almighty Allah.
– Nas from the song ‘Ghetto Prisoners (Album: I Am…)

Word has it that he is a 5 percenter, but what’s controversial is his new albums name coming out soon called “Nigger”, obviously “Nigger” is an extremely disparaging and offensive racial term.

Now Nas is a African Artist, for him to call his Album “Nigger”, some people might see it as if he supporting the use of the term but he said his objective is “We’re taking power [away] from the word,” he also said “If Cornel West was making an album called Nigger, they would know he’s got something intellectual to say,” Nas continued. “To think I’m gonna say something that’s not intellectual is calling me a nigger, and to be called a nigger by Jesse Jackson and the NAACP is counterproductive, counter-revolutionary.”

The slur, formerly used by Southern lynch mobs, has become a common greeting among black youth. But the Rev. Al Sharpton, also at the Core Club party, still finds it profoundly offensive.

“I’m astonished by the psychological gymnastics some people perform to make that self-denigrating word acceptable,” he told us. “No other race does it. Why is it accepted? In an industry that makes Michael Jackson take out a word that was offensive to Jewish people, why does it sanitize a word that continues to be used by the Ku Klux Klan when it attacks our people?”

So i wrote this post because sometimes i see it within our own Muslim Community that people use this term and Muslim’s judge Black Muslims, We gotta stick to our Brotherhood and that we are one ummah “We are all children of Adam, we can’t let our environment take control of how we speak, meaning “racial slurs” and we would’nt want any individual or group labeling us as they are already trying, So Inshallah let’s educate people and remember My man Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) One of the Greatest Muslim Americans ever said ….

“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white, but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all together, irrespective of their color.”

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