Jesse Jackson Prohibits Rapper Daughter From Using the N-Word

Jesse Jackson's teen daughter has picked up the mic and is trying her hand at rapping. Her Civil Rights leader father has one major stipulation. She can't use the N-word. According to TMZ, Ashley Jackson, 16, lives with her mother in Los Angeles and is trying to break into the hip-hop scene. All her life she has lived under the no profanity and no N-word mandate from her parents and the rule has rubbed off into her music. As has her father's work. According to the report, Ashley's rhymes have a socially conscious message.

Jesse Jackson has had an up-and-down relationship with rap over the years. Notably, back in 2006 he urged rappers to quit using the N-word to no avail. The following year, held a town hall meeting at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Conference in Chicago called “Hip-Hop: A Dignified Culture or a Degradation Crisis?” The event focused on the role of woman in hip-hop music and videos. “Hip hoppers did not start the misogynist degradation of woman, but they can help stop it,” Jackson said at the event. “It never was right and now we have popularized and commercialized degradation.”

In 2008, Jackson caught the ire of Nas who said Jackson was "finished" after audio surfaced of Jackson slighting then presidential candidate Barack Obama.

It looks like Jesse still has some issues with rap music, but at least he's open to his daughter getting involved in the genre. On the real though, doesn't a Kendrick Lamar track featuring Jesse Jackson's daughter just seem dope in theory? If Ashley keeps pushing, maybe she can make it happen.