His parent’s influence and teachings may have been what caused him to briefly join the Nation of Islam later on in his life while living in the Bay Area. We can learn." And we can start by not dismissing things too early.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Dayton, Katt Williams was the product of a socially and politically charged household. "All I'm saying is life is too short," he says. The races and the genders, in his view, have different cultures, which makes the world not a competition but an opportunity. (Apparently it's useful to have an outraged white friend turning up at the police station when you get arrested.) In short, he is a liberal, even if his language isn't. All races should make friends with one another, often for merely practical reasons. Parents need to stop smacking their kids. "If your man got a problem with your stretch marks," he says, "I suggest you stop fucking with bitch niggers."īlack men, he says, need to relax and not be so angry all the time. And it is pretty clear elsewhere that this second way of seeing things is Williams's. Doubtless many women would be happier if they could learn not to value themselves by the criteria men hand out. Seen another, however, it is outright feminism. Seen one way, this is a man telling women to stop complaining – even blaming them for feeling worthless when they're mistreated.
You done got with a nigger and now you talking about, 'You fucked up my self-esteem'. We tired of y'all getting with us and blaming us for shit we ain't even in control of. If you the shit, you the motherfucking shit. Stop waiting on a nigger to verify whether you the shit or not, bitch. Take this bit, and try to look beyond the full-on language: "Ladies, you've got to be the shit to you. He struts and tumbles and dances until the sweat pours, and everywhere he goes he carries the exciting air of a man who arrived on stage with something to say.
He may wear the trappings of hip-hop fame – the girls, the gold, the jargon – but he preaches tolerance and kindness.įunny how? With his manic capering and pulpit urgency, Williams reminds me more of James Brown than any rapper. Williams, however, though he is as sharp as Rock and as morally upstanding ( in principle, if not in practice ), is also deeply immersed enough in ghetto lore to be able to reprove it from the inside. Rock installed a milestone in comedy, and in America, when he delivered his "black people vs niggers" routine in 1996. Sometimes hip-hop's bombast, full-bloodedness and questionable ethics have been present, too.īut so has self-criticism.
In different ways, Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Jamie Foxx, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Mike Epps and Eddie Griffin have all made it their business to describe the experience – self-confidently at last – of being black as opposed to white in America. For as long as there's been hip-hop music, it's had a counterpart in comedy. "I'm only calling you bitches," he explains to the women in the audience, "because I don't know your names individually." Is that an excuse? Or a refusal to make one? You are entitled, if you wish, to dismiss him out of hand right there.īut Williams is interesting. The set-up: Right from the beginning, Katt Williams clears something up.
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