Playboy Interview: Kanye West

March, 2006

"White people, this is your only chance to use the word 'nigger,'" Kanye West shouts to the Theater at Madison Square Garden crowd roaring the words to "Gold Digger," the biggest rap hit of the past year. "Take advantage of it."That snapshot from West's recent tour sums up the wit and audacity of the 28-year-old rapper and producer. The chorus of the song--"I ain't saying she a gold digger/But she ain't messing with no broke niggers"--is not only as catchy...

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