*I don't know if you guys saw this yet but I got this off of a link someone posted on another website. It just seems weird that the same man who said that President Bush didn't care (or was it didn't like?) black people encouraged his fans at a concert to use the n-word. This is part of the Playboy interview...it's the first bolded lines.* White people, this is your only chance to use the word, ‘n*gger’” Kanye West shouts to the Theater at Madison Square Garden crowd roaring the words to “Gold Digger”, the biggest rap hit of the past year. “Take advantage of it.” PLAYBOY: At the end of “Gold Digger,” you say, “When you get on, he’ll leave you for a white girl.” WEST: It uses profanity, and it’s shocking and controversial and f*cked-up and funny. It’s so perfect and out of the park. It touches on social anxieties and overcompensation and racial tension. Black people say, “Yeah, that does happen.” At one of my concerts I saw white girls with T-shirts that read HE’LL LEAVE YOUR A*S FOR A WHITE GIRL. Like, “Yay!” They’re very happy about that line. PLAYBOY: So the combination of hooks and provocation made “Gold Digger” one of the biggest songs of 2005? WEST: God wanted me to have “Gold Digger”. You know I made that song for someone else; I wrote it for Shawnna from Disturbing the Peace, but she had problems clearing the sample and had to turn her album in. At the end of the day-all bullshit aside, all the shyt I talk aside-God hands me these records. And Jon Brion, he was a dope-ass producer, a guy who could just sit there and check my lyrics. PLAYBOY: Wait. You took advice about rapping from a white piano player? Most rappers would have thrown him out of the studio. WEST: That’s why so many people make inadequate music. *I knew his cocky ass would do something stupid like this. That whole Bush thing was probably just for publicity...his album was coming out around that time so he probably figured hey, why not?*
