Nope. Hip hop is not relevant here. You are not paying attention to the context. I actually have no problem with rappers and hip hip artists using the word in question.<p>I was making a statement of fact, which is valid no matter how many downvotes I get: this guy just named a domain &quot;nigg.er&quot;. That&#x27;s not a &quot;joke&quot;. It doesn&#x27;t meet any definition of what a joke is. It&#x27;s using a word to be gratuitously offensive. It doesn&#x27;t matter what his motivation was; it doesn&#x27;t rise to the level of a joke. I&#x27;m not saying that because I find the word offensive, I&#x27;m saying it because simply naming something &quot;nigger&quot; is factually not a joke. I&#x27;m not sure what you call it, but I am sure that you don&#x27;t call it a joke. :)