Kanye West- See Me Now (feat. Beyoncé "Nigga" Knowles + Charlie Wilson)

"If you fall on the concrete, that's yo asphalt..."

I QUITE LIKE THIS song. I do have a love/hate thing going on with Kanye, however. Ever since that Taylor Swift thing I've been having to defend him quite often and I'm growing to resent that. Plus, I didn't really like POWER besides that amazing beat, for which Mr. West is not responsible. Talk about letdown. I like RUNAWAY, and by the looks of his performances of that song, the red-suited devil motif juxtaposed with delicate ballerinas is really interesting. (By the way, is Pusha T of the Clipse no longer with his broham? Is he a part of G.O.O.D. now?) 

Anyway this song, SEE ME NOW, has been on the radio for the past couple of weeks and is one of the current few songs I don't mind hearing. And of course, Beyoncé's blatant "Nigga" is bleeped out. I for one am not really against using the word. In fact, every morning I climb up to my roof and repeatedly yell nigga at the top of my voice. It really clears my esophageal tract, and reminds my neighbors of who is black on our street.

But is it just me or does this remind you of JLo's nigga incident of 2001 in I'm Real? For some reason it was okay for Big Pun [RIP] to say it, but when JLo did it the record scratched to a pause and everyone stopped dancing. By the same token, we are aware that Beyoncé is a black girl from Houston, and yet it feels so scandalous when she says it. To me it sounds like she deliberately requested say it really loud right smack dab in the chorus like "Yeah, take that! Niggas!!" Maybe there's a political reason why she did it. Maybe she was doing it for JLo? 

Then again, I feel like I should also cite that she said nigga in the song Irreplaceable; only then it was hidden deep in the lyrics and is barely audible unless you listen closely. "If I bought it nigga please don't touch..."  Maybe since we didn't hear her that time, she wanted to make sure we hear it this time. 

So, by the will of Queen Beyoncé, let the word Nigga be heard loudly and clearly, amidst the rest of this great tune.