Nah don’t listen to that person Tech is still great. He runs his own food drive in NYC and he’s out putting in the work. He said some crazy shit back in the day but he’s always real, one of the only genuinely openly communist, anti-imperialist rappers that raps about materialism n shit. And he doesn’t hate gay people and has clearly reconciled with his use of the N word as a non-black man, something a lot of modern non-black rappers do with 0 material analysis.

that Mexican OT, as much as I dig the guys music, is a good example of someone who has been told by different communities to stop saying the N word but won’t because he identifies with it even tho he’s not black and will never know what that is like, if that makes sense.

[–] forgetfulmeat@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Immortal Technique heavily impacted my beliefs in middle school so I'm happy to hear.

On Mexican OT though. I'm from Texas originally. People will have a hard time trying to get him to stop saying it lol that's obvious already but as a chicano that did live in texas I'm telling you lol

The history of the word gets disconnected. Like they know but to them that's another time and the word isn't used the same anymore. To them it's just a casual and informal word. Friendly even. It's certainly not out of racism at least. I personally have always protested it. I didn't really grow up in Texas though so my position is a little different.

[–] deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh yeah ! I 100% know it’s not from a racist place, and I’m a little white dude so I have no real horse in this race, I’m not gonna tell anyone shit if they’re not white ya know. OT still raps with some of my favorite rappers so it seems pretty negligible in general, and funny enough i don’t think he said it on his newest tracks with Denzel 😂 and he’s fun