When I finally got a chance to hear Dej Loaf’s “Try Me” song I was impressed. It was catchy but a little more lyrical than BS’s “Hot Nigga” song. If you listen to Dej Loaf’s flow carefully, you can hear a trace of substance within the gun talk. I played it a second time and heard her say: “I really hate Niggas I’m a Nazi” and I’m like what did she say?
Now I’m all for artistic freedom, but I will be lying to you if I said that line didn’t make me feel some type of way. I can’t really articulate how I felt, but I did feel uncomfortable playing the song again; but then I ended up playing the song again and again. It is an undeniable hit, and usually, those songs are hard to resist, thus making them a hit.
I really question the impact of protesting things like rappers’ lyrics. Do you remember when Lil Wayne made the lyrics about Emmett Till? More recently, his label mate Nicki Minaj caught flack for using Malcolm X’s image for her single “Looking Nigga.” Despite objections, those songs continued to play on the radio and in the clubs. I support today’s Hip Hop because I remember people like Deloris C. Tucker and a few people back in the day who was trying to censor rap. I didn’t like that they were stomping the CDs of some of my favorite artists. I feel it would be hypocritical to give some type of restriction to today’s artists as well. On the other hand, you can’t ignore that it needs to be more accountability from the artist and what they say. Unlike some people who believe that police should come from the public or some form of leadership; I believed it should come from the artist themselves.
In that video, they’re flashing “kkk” (the sign language fr\or “k”, @ 3:02) and some other hand sign the klan uses too, in that video. the kkk is probably funding it…pays for mentioning their organization, foe “re-branding.”