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Opinion: Fat Joe’s N-Word Defense Isn’t New — Here’s Why It Still Doesn’t Hold Up

theroot.com · 5dShare

A regional corner of the hip-hop industry has spent twenty years acting like proximity is a passport office, and Fat Joe is the recurring test case.

First report: Fat Joe’s N-word comments reignite a complicated conversation about Blackness and hip-hop — thegrio.com, 6d