V-Nasty: “If I Can’t Say the N-Word, Then Nobody Should Say It”
With a joint album with Gucci Mane, BAYTL, out today, V-Nasty talks with XXLMag.com about how the project came about, and why she uses the N-word…
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On Kreayshawn’s breakout viral hit “Gucci Gucci,” the pint-sized femcee raps, “I’m yelling ‘Free V-Nasty’ ’til my throat is raspy.” Thanks to that and the video’s 27 million views, people knew V-Nasty’s name before most of them had any idea who she was. It turned out she was a member of Kreayshawn’s White Girl Mob, a collection of a few female rhymers from the Bay Area who started to spark some interest following Kreay’s million-plus dollar deal with Columbia six months ago. Quickly, controversy swirled around V-Nasty, when videos surfaced online of her nonchalantly using the N-word. Soon, she made another video defending herself, which triggered David Banner to release a song condemning her actions.
Now ready to make her own name, V-Nasty has teamed with Gucci Mane for BAYTL, a joint album whose title borrows from the two cities that the artists rep. With the project out through Warner Bros. today (December 13), V-Nasty talks to XXL about what it was like working with her favorite rapper, why it’s alright for her to say the N-word around friends even though she plans to stop using it in her music, and more. —Adam Fleischer
XXL: Tell me how the project between you and Gucci came about?
V-Nasty: Gucci Mane reached out to my manager, so my manager got me in the studio with him. That shit was cool. It was a good experience to be in there with someone that I really look up to.
When did he reach out?
About three months ago.
He’s been locked up. Were you guys able to work together in person?
Yeah. I went to Atlanta and worked with him for like two weeks.
What was it like? I’ve heard he’s one of your favorite rappers.
I felt like boo-booing on myself. Nah, I’m just playing. I was hella excited. It was like a dream came true. Like, Damn, Gucci Mane wanna make some songs with me? V-Nasty? It was cool. And he a cool ass person. He made me feel comfortable.
What’s the feel of the project? What are people going to learn about you as an artist?
Hopefully they take it the right way. I’ve seen a lot of negative feedback, but that’s [from] people that have a problem with me already. Hopefully this changes peoples’ minds, because they can actually see how I feel and where I actually come from. At first, I was writing my own stuff, and then Gucci Mane had me freestyling hella shit. It’s a good project, I feel like; hopefully everybody else feels the same.
Where have you felt the negative feedback?
On Twitter and stuff. They say stuff like, Oh, Gucci Mane, you’re hella dumb for making this song with V-Nasty. Just that type of shit. But, oh, well. Whatever.
I know it’s coming out through Warner. Do you have any kind of situation over there?
No. Well, what do you mean?
Have you signed to Warner, or it’s coming out through them because Gucci is over there?
Yeah. It’s like that. I’m not signed to anybody. A couple labels reached out to me, but I didn’t take a deal yet. I’m not ready for one.
You were speaking about some of the negativity aimed in your direction earlier, and some of that initially stemmed from your use of the N-word. I’m wondering where you’re at with that? Are we gonna hear that on this project?
I don’t think so. I don’t think I said it on there.
Why was that?
Because I’m working on not using the N-word in my music and stuff. But on an everyday thing when I’m with my friends, I don’t feel like I should have to change anything. I just feel like I don’t wanna disrespect anybody, because I don’t know what other people have been through. It’s not like that in my city. I just feel like I’m gonna stop using it in my music, in a public eye. Other than that, I’m gonna continue to be myself.
How can you support the oppressor, condoning such language. She can not speak that word and say it out of love to her dumb friends for allowing her to use it. At the end of the day she nor her ancestors were beat and uprooted from their land and seperated from all of who we were. Thank you David Banner for speaking up for a hip hop community hoed out by the oppressor. QOTD-Dollars dont make cents if the dollars got you losing your sense-Me
Hey, I don’t know about this are not, but scientifically, everyone in the world comes from Africa, so you are wrong, stop being a pussy. That shit didn’t even happen to you, affect you, or have an impact on anyone you know. Not one of your dumbass friends were uprooted from their land or forced to do manual labor.
fuck you how about you and Smart kid find your own damn culture before you say shit you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT! If your not black then you will never know what it is like being outnumbered in most situations. So now that we have gotten past civil rights which most black americans parents or grandparents were alive for we should let you in and disrespect our culture. Why don’t you just originate something you like and quit talking like you could possibly understand the mind state of a black american.
Who cares. She is going to sink like the titanic anyway. No talent rappers dont stick around very long, all these lames are on their way out lyricism is on its way back thank god. Cant wait to see Gucci and Ross and all these other lame ass excuses for musicians hang up their mics and start workin jobs at Mc.D’s.
damn..let me fuck that girl just for once!
i get boner everytime i see her on the internet.
if she can say nigga then i can say BIITCH!!! THATS ALL SHE IS!!! A HOOD RAT BIITCH!!! SHE THE REASON E-40 AND TOO SHORT SAY BIITCH!!!! and i can say that and it shouldnt be a problem!!!!! and trust me i aint on no negative shit, thats just the way we talk from where im from, no BIITCH from around here would have a problem wit iT………RIGHT????? BIIITCH!!!!!!
It’s funny how black people can call white people “crackaz” but when white girl drops the n-bomb, the whole world goes crazy.. So is it right for black people to call us “crackaz”? I’ll say NO!
i can sorta see where your trying to cum from but the n word is rooted in 300 years of fucked up hiistory.
Who are these black people dropping “crackaz” all the time? Just because a white dude can’t be bothered to defend their race why the fuck should we allow racist shit to pop off? If I say “Crackaz” come at me but I ain’t taking no dumbass bitch saying nigga in front of me. Maybe white folks need to raise their standards.
see…”crakas” were the name of SLAVE OPPRESSORS…they “cracked the whip”…
my question is…WHY DO YOU WANT TO SAY N^GGA SO BADLY?
do YOU know what the word NEGGAR means? IF you did…and you KNEW history…you would KNOW White America tarnished that word with actions of supremacy and hatred…WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO USE IT NOW?
NOW…why do you call yourself CAUCASIAN…are you RUSSIAN? YOU BORN OR RAISED IN THE MOUNTAINS?
NEGGAR
N!GGER
NIGGA
which one do YOU mean? I see more Caucasians tilling the land than Africans…
CONSIDER THIS MY LAST JEWEL…AND V-NASTY IS CHEEKS…months later we STILL talking about this…no MUSIC…CONTROVERSY
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And this broad ain’t NOBODY to determine who can say what…muffukkas done DIED OVER THIS…she trying to get PAID offa it…I know PLENTY of chicks like her who would NEVER go there…AND they GOOD PEOPLE…
word is BOND niccas is SOFT nowadays…
Cracka will never hold near the weight of the N word. The N word is strong than cursing. Cracka isn’t even as bad as calling a person “stupid”. Don’t compare the 2.
fuck you how about you and Smart kid find your own damn culture before you say shit you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT! If your not black then you will never know what it is like being outnumbered in most situations. So now that we have gotten past civil rights which most black americans parents or grandparents were alive for we should let you in and disrespect our culture. Why don’t you just originate something you like and not steal our artform & quit talking like you could possibly understand the mind state of a black american.
Fucck that biitch and every cracka in the bay if they think its okay to say that word. I don’t care if thats what they say where she’s from. She hangs around a bunch of racists or crackas trying to be Black. I hope her and Kreayshawn go jump off the bay bridge, nobody wants to hear their music. I don’t know what Gucci was thinking. And he told her she street? Yeah right
in a sense she is right, nobody should say that word… but thats all that shes got right
Whata Bitch
this is not right but its a reality. the profuse usage of the word has spawned a generation of young white people who are into hiphop culture that use the word. I was born and raised in the south bronx and I moved to bensonhurst brooklyn about 2 years ago. I was playin ball with some white kids and they were callin each other nigga. It’s accepted and it happens. I am not condoning it but it is a truth in the society we live in now. I honestly don’t beleive that they mean harm by it but it doesn’t make it acceptable, but its the paradox of the world we live in.
She trash anyway by the way and doing an album with gucci aint gonna change that…for either of them for that matter.
ALOT OF YOU YOUNG AN DUMB KISS ASS UNCLE TOM NIGGER’S, NEED TO NO THAT SLAVE MASTERS, AN MOST OF THE WHITE RACE GIVE US THAT NAME, WHEN THEY WERE KILLING BLACK MEN AN WOMEN, YOUR BOYS AN GIRLS, THEY WERE CALLING ARE DAUGHTERS THAT WHILE THEY WERE RAPEING THEM AN LITTLE BABYS, WHEN THEY HUNG US FROM TREES THEY SAY LOOK AT THE NIGGER, WE WERE BLACK NO GOOD NIGGERS, TO THEM, AN STILL ARE, ITS JUST ON THE LOW NOW, I BET WHEN THAT BITCH HEARD HER FAMILY SAY THAT WORD, IN HER HOUSE HOLD, IT WASNT CAUSE OF NO HIP HOP SILLY SHIT, THE BOTTOM LINE IS, ALOT OF BLK WOMEN CHILDREN MEN WERE KILLED AN RAPE BEHIND THAT WORD, WHAT THE WORSE WORD YOU CAN SAY TO WHITE PEOPLE THAT THEY DONT LIKE, AN YOU USE IT AROUND THEM AN SEE HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT, THEY MIGHT WANT TO FUCK YOU UP, CAN YOU HIP HOP NUCKEL HEADS UNDERSTAND THAT,
yalll are goofy as shit WHO GIVES A FUCK IF SHE SAYS NIGGA, where she grew up everysaid that , ” wassup nigga” ” i was with them niggas the other day” its 2011 you ducks