Charlamagne Tha God spoke out on The Breakfast Membership in protection of a Mississippi TV anchor who appears to have been punished for quoting Snoop Dogg on air.
“She will’t say ‘fo shizzle, my nizzle’?” the radio host questioned through the present’s well-liked “Rumor Report” phase throughout a present final week. “I suppose ’trigger ‘nizzle’ is spinoff of the N-word? I’m saying that in context, I didn’t imply to say it. … I’m not utilizing that phrase.”
After his co-host DJ Envy opined that the anchor, Barbie Bassett of WLBT, shouldn’t lose her job over the gaffe, Charlamagne doubled down in settlement. “I don’t assume she ought to’ve been fired. She won’t even know what ‘nizzle’ means, yo,” he argued. “Like, come on, we obtained to, like, cease, man. That’s not a cause to fireside that girl.
“That’s the factor with hip-hop, man. Hip-hop is so huge and so mainstream and it’s identical to, who can eat it and who can’t? You understand what I imply? Who can repeat slang and who can’t?” Charlamagne continued. “She won’t have any thought, she simply thinks she’s sounding cool repeating Snoop Canine!”
As of press time, Bassett has been off the air ever since she offhandedly repeated the phrase whereas bantering along with her co-anchor throughout their March 8 telecast. Her biography has additionally been faraway from the station’s official web site, although WLBT’s normal supervisor has reportedly declined to touch upon the state of affairs, in response to a report by Jackson, Miss.’s The Clarion-Ledger.
Watch Charlamagne debate use of Snoop’s slang phrase under, beginning on the 4:22 mark, and the clip of Bassett on-air.
