Kurtis Blow backs campaign to end use of the N-word

Rap pioneer Kurtis Blow has added his voice to the ongoing and much previously reported campaign to have the word 'nigger' expelled from hip hop, black culture in general and popular music business e-bulletins. Blow will participate in previously reported plans by the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People to stage a mock funeral for the increasingly provocatively slang term at the Association's National Convention in Detroit next month. The rapper and NAACP officials had been expected to make an official announcement regarding the mock funeral in Detroit this weekend, but that announcement was cancelled after Blow became unable to attend.