Paul McCartney doesn’t think Kanye West’s use of the N-word in his songs is offensive.
After collaborating on multiple songs last year with the hip-hop star on "Only One,” and “All Day,” where West drops the N-bomb, the legendary Beatle explained why he doesn’t see an issue with Kanye saying it in an interview with Radio 4’s Mastertapes. “People like Oprah, who’s a little conservative about that stuff, said, ‘You shouldn’t do it, even black people shouldn’t use that word.’ I said, ‘Yeah, but it’s Kanye! And he’s talking about an urban generation that uses that word in a completely different way,’” he said. “It’s the context. So I was actually pleased with it.” The song also featured Theophilus London and was supposed to be one of the first singles off his upcoming album at the time which ended up being “T.L.O.P.” It was also nominated for a Grammy, but deemed controversial because West used the N-word in it more than 40 times.
Paul McCartney also worked with Kanye West on “FourFiveSeconds” with Rihanna. He compared working with Kanye to writing with his former bandmate John Lennon in an interview with The Sun last year. “When I wrote with John, he would sit down with a guitar. I would sit down. We’d ping-ping till we had a song. It was like that,” said McCartney to The Sun. “[Kanye and I] sat around and talked an awful lot just to break the ice. One of the stories I told him was about how I happened to have written Let It Be. “My mum came to me in a dream when she’d died years previously. In the dream she said, ‘Don’t worry it’s all going to be fine, just let it be,’ And I woke up and thought, ‘Woah and wrote the song. I told Kanye this and he said, ‘I’m going to write a song with my mom.’ So then I sat down at the Piano." McCartney said this is how Kanye ended up writing the “Only One” which is supposed to be from the point of view of his mother in heaven.
Source: allhiphop.com
