Niggas vs. Black People
"Niggas vs. Black People" is a Chris Rock stand-up comedy routine, which appeared both on his 1996 HBO special Bring the Pain and as track 12 on his 1997 album Roll with the New, established his status as a comedy fixture after he left Saturday Night Live.
The routine is a twelve-minute
Inspiration
In a 2007 interview, Rock explained that the inspiration for the bit came from the song "Us" from the 1991 Ice Cube album Death Certificate.[1]
Retirement
The controversy caused by Rock's constant use of the word "nigger" led him to remove the rant from his show. In a 2005 60 Minutes interview, Rock said: "By the way, I've never done that joke again, ever, and I probably never will. 'Cos some people that were racist thought they had license to say n-----, so, I'm done with that routine."[2]
Cultural impact
Barack Obama directly referred to the routine while campaigning to be elected president during a Father's Day speech on June 15, 2008, saying: "Chris Rock had a routine. He said some—too many of our men, they're proud, they brag about doing things they're supposed to do. They say 'Well, I—I'm not in jail.' Well, you're not supposed to be in jail!"[3][4]
In the second episode of the
See also
References
- ^ Gavin Edwards. "Smart Mouth". Rolling Stone, Star Date (876, 20478). Archived from the original on May 5, 2009. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
- ^ Leung, Rebecca (February 17, 2005). "Rock: Bring On Oscar 'Safety Net'". CBS News. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
- ^ Baumann, Nick (June 16, 2008). "Obama Channels Chris Rock". Mother Jones. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
- ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
- Universal.
External links
- Bennun, David, "Chris Rock," The Guardian, 2000.
- Chris Rock: Bring the Pain at IMDb