Grammy Award Winning Rapper Chamillionaire Profanity Free; Ditches 'N' Word On New LP
By Danielle Harling
Date: 4/27/2007 6:15 pm
With the debate over the use of language in Hip-Hop gaining momentum by
the day, few rappers have spoken on the issue until now.
Houston rapper Chamillionaire has garnered much success with No. 1 hits
like "Ridin" and has risen to prominence on the Houston mixtape
circuit, but what most people may not know is that Chamillionaire
rarely sacrifices lyrical content for profanities... Read More.
“On my new album I don’t say the word n***a, I don’t curse nowhere on
my whole album,” Chamillionaire told AllHipHop.com. “People are not
even gonna know it. I guarantee if I don’t go out and say it in the
media they’re not even gonna realize that. People go back and listen to
all of my old mixtapes and don’t even realize that I wasn’t even doing
all that type of stuff. I was saying n***a, but I wasn’t saying the 'f'
word or [the] 'b' word. I was never saying those types of things...I
hear that so much and it restricts your creativity and how far it can
go.”
Chamillionaire, who was recently certified by the RIAA as the first
multi-platinum Mastertone artist in history, is the son of a Muslim
father and Christian mother.
The Grammy Award winning rapper, born Hakeem Seriki has sold millions of records.
He said that Hip-Hop is the art form that seems to be targeted the most
when it comes to language, but other mediums will still promote the use
of profanities.
Chamillionaire also said that the recent criticism and finger pointing at Hip-Hop was only creating a bigger generational gap.
"People going to get rap CDs and rolling them over with steamrollers,
what is that doing? That aint doing nothing but creating rebellion and
people need to realize that," Chamillionaire explained.
Chamillionaire recently released the single "I'm Not A Criminal"
featuring Kelis and a remix to the song featuring Snoop Dogg and Busta
Rhymes.
The singles are the first releases from Chamillionaire's upcoming album titled Ultimate Victory.
“I don’t get caught up in the actual ‘This word is bad’ because with
everything you take away there’s gonna be something there to replace
it,” Chamillionaire told AllHipHop.com. "Everybody needs to focus their
direction on these younger kids that are looking at them. If we help
raise them right this is gonna be the new generation and this new
generation is gonna be more like me maybe and just don’t curse or brag
about being a gangster."
Ultimate Victory is slated to hit stores on June 5.
The album features appearances by Snoop Dogg, Pimp C, Slick Rick, Lil' Wayne, Busta Rhymes, Devin The Dude and others.
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