Less than 24 hours after the, shall we say, misguided Brad Paisley and LL Cool J song "Accidental Racist" went viral, YouTube videos featuring the song appear to have been taken down — but it might not be YouTube doing the pulling, exactly. Check out LL Cool J Talks "Accidental Racist" Video, the latest video from LL Cool J, released on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013. The country crooner has twice performed for the Obamas at the White House, and he wrote an anthem of sorts for President Obama, “Welcome to the Future,” after his election in 2008. Chains, sagging pants, cowboy hats, red flags: To Paisley and Cool J, the social meaning of fashion plays an out-sized role in racial misunderstandings. More baffling than Paisley’s well-intended ignorance, though, is the involvement of Cool J, who usually comes off as a likeable and competent hip-hop veteran. You know like human beings. It seems just as possible that those fans will absorb all the wrong things from “Accidental Racist”—and there are plenty of wrong things to absorb. Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. Slavery but what I am saying is to get the slavery mentality. LL set the record straight about his intentions behind the song. By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. The Republican took-on a stereotypical Asian accent and … But let’s not endorse a whole bunch of terrible ideas in the process. Accidental racist might lack the -- chorus of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney's ebony and ivory. You can cancel anytime. And -- this country -- indeed -- course that we should -- seat Embraer. Consider another recent attempt at speaking forthrightly about racism. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. Hear what Rapper LL Cool J thinks about his collaboration with Brad Paisley and their new song "Accidental Racist." Music delving into these sensitive territory of race. -- clearly they wanted to get people talking but. But for LL cool. All rights reserved. “Accidental Racist.” The title of the new Brad Paisley-LL Cool J collaboration alone is enough to signal “proceed with caution” for discerning first-time listeners. Last month, Philadelphia magazine published a piece by Robert Huber about “Being White in Philly.” “We need to bridge the conversational divide,” Huber wrote, “so that there are no longer two private dialogues in Philadelphia—white people talking to other whites, and black people to blacks—but a city in which it is OK to speak openly about race.” Like Paisley and Cool J, Huber presented himself as brave for taking on the topic. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. This new duet between Brad Paisley and LL Cool J, "Accidental Racist," is getting beaten up pretty badly on the intertubes. Was something that people need to hear. Country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J have teamed up for a song called "Accidental Racist" - and it's sparking an internet backlash. Accidental racist might lack the -- chorus of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney's ebony and ivory. The title of the song is "Accidental Racist" but nothing here implies any sort of accident. Two days ago rap star LL cool. Brad Paisley, LL Cool J Defend 'Accidental Racist': Full Interview More Country star and rapper discuss the meaning behind their recent duet that caused controversy. Less than 24 hours after the, shall we say, misguided Brad Paisley and LL Cool J song "Accidental Racist" went viral, YouTube videos featuring the song appear to have been taken down — but it might not be YouTube doing the pulling, exactly. Brad Paisley, LL Cool J Defend 'Accidental Racist': Full Interview More Country star and rapper discuss the meaning behind their recent duet that caused controversy. And simply moving on. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking news? Don't get bitter get better beyond teaming up to trying to heal racial tensions. Paisley says he looks like he’s “got a lot to learn,” but really he’s “just a white man/ coming to you from the south land.” (Nevermind that Paisley is from West Virginia, which was not, in fact, a Confederate state. Photos by Jason Merritt/Getty Images and Steven Lawton/Getty Images. -- -- -- -- -- -- Country superstar Brad Paisley and veteran rapper LO -- -- Tried to bridge to world with their collaboration on the -- accidental -- you from page Lee's latest album we'll house. But just talking about race is not enough. Brad Paisley and LL Cool J team up for controversial song ‘Accidental Racist’ President Donald Trump's lawyer kept up the racist banter in podcast footage his team accidentally posted. ), This is not Paisley’s first foray into racial diplomacy. 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You know a wife and get upset with me what you know I'm not a pilot Rick. As an accidental races for these two stars though the song is Elisa bell bluntness and much more. Yes, let’s talk about race. Hear what Rapper LL Cool J thinks about his collaboration with Brad Paisley and their new song "Accidental Racist." Or just the fact that it's just one of those things is difficult to do. Explore things that I wasn't sure it would if if they they had never been explore because it doesn't work or. {"duration":"3:00","description":"Country music star and rapper address backlash from their new co-written song. "SNL" took a swipe at it over the weekend, and now, Stephen Colbert has upped the ante in the best possible way: with his own song, of course. ... or what they can do to be anti-racist. Yes I'm country black artist finding success in the largely white world of country music dates back decades. “Accidental Racist.” The title of the new Brad Paisley-LL Cool J collaboration alone is enough to signal “proceed with caution” for discerning first-time listeners. It should not be necessary to point out that the horrors of slavery are not on the same plane as the sartorial choices of some black males. The now-deleted racist video was allegedly accidentally posted by his staffers. Paisley and Cool J want to bring us all together, clearly, and that’s an admirable goal. You’ve run out of free articles. "Accidental Racist" Song Clip4/17/2013 Brad Paisley is so committed to kick starting a dialogue between blacks and whites that he starts one mid-song with LL Cool J. The -- takes on slavery it suffered. In the importance of this issue and -- -- -- wanted to be able. In his verse, Cool J implores “Mr. “If you don’t judge my gold chains/ I’ll forget the iron chains,” he says, in what may be the song’s single most jaw-dropping rhyme. ... Fennoy—living in Los Angeles—is a superstar in the video game/cartoon Voice Acting world. This new duet between Brad Paisley and LL Cool J, "Accidental Racist," is getting beaten up pretty badly on the intertubes. I don't know if they actually expected it would get to this extent -- office NA is the music critic for The New Yorker and has covered -- -- career extensively. We're talking about the"oh, I didn't even know I thought that way" type of accident, not the "I totally didn't know that was your last Reese's cup" type of accident. Coming up in the next {{countdown}} {{countdownlbl}}. This is the most important interview -- -- -- to -- Because of the song that we create. By Ron Dicker A hot mic moment accidentally posted by his own team showed Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani talking in a mocking Asian accent while repeatedly bowing, The Daily Beast reported Wednesday. It seems universally agreed that Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's "Accidental Racist" is just terrible. Over thirty years since Paul McCartney Stevie Wonder recorded ebony and -- -- -- poignant commentary on racial integration intolerance. Open -- -- up so that we can move forward. ","mediaType":"default","section":"ABCNews/Nightline","id":"18929095","title":"Brad Paisley, LL Cool J Stand by 'Accidental Racist' Song","url":"/Nightline/video/brad-paisley-ll-cool-stand-accidental-racist-song-18929095"}. Let bygones be behind them. What's unusual is that he's willing to sing a song about it where. Brad Paisley hopes something good will come from all of the controversy surround his new song "Accidental Racist.". VIDEO: 'SNL': 'Accidental Racist' Eliminates Discrimination. But the -- still strikes a chord. Putting aside, for a moment, the fact that slavery should not be forgotten, there is, of course, a stunningly wrongheaded equivalency here (and it is not the only one in this song). This, of course, is an incredibly superficial—and, ultimately, even dismissive—attitude to take toward racism. You can listen to the song here, with lyrics here. The lyrics are jarring hit earnest and -- -- country crooner. Brad Paisley, LL Cool J Stand by 'Accidental Racist' Song. Apparently it is. Brad Paisley’s questionable new country-rap song with LL Cool J is raising eyebrows. “This isn’t a stunt. About progress and let's not -- victims of things that. Brad Paisley’s questionable new country-rap song with LL Cool J is raising eyebrows. WSJ's John Jurgensen reports. 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But to a critical reception much -- reminiscent of -- in Paul's classic instead. LL Cool J addressed the controversy that erupted over his new song with Brad Paisley, "Accidental Racist. And while “Accidental Racist” has attracted plenty of condemnation, at the same time at least a few fans have expressed appreciation and admiration for tackling a tough subject matter. But still the issue of race remains an unwavering lightning rod especially when confronted as bluntly. For more conciliatory tone saying when it comes to America's past. Rudy Giuliani mocked Asian people in a racist video that appeared to have been uploaded to his YouTube channel by mistake. Starting with its ideas about the past and personal responsibility, which remind me of a scene in West Side Story: The old shopkeeper Doc furiously says to the young Jets, who are feuding with the rival Puerto Rican Sharks, “You make this world lousy!” “That’s the way we found it, Doc,” one of the gang members sheepishly replies. Racism—in schools, in the court room, in the hiring process, and elsewhere—still exists, and shouldn’t be dismissed as black people failing to get over something that happened “a hundred-fifty  years” ago. A way to reach both the massive hip hop and country audiences these are both genres where people in that genre wave the flag and they like -- -- yes I'm hip hop. Me most notably with the success of singer Charley pride back in the seven. Some people take exception to some of the lyrics -- respect that I'm sensitive to that but in the end I felt like what we had on tape. He craved “the freedom,” he said, to tell his “African-American neighbors … how the inner city needs to get its act together.” Paisley at least did Huber one better by collaborating with an African-American neighbor of sorts. The song, called “ This -- -- ignited a media firestorm. Pushing the musical envelope is old hat for Paisley. No -- back and mom mom. -- accidental racist -- strikes have. In “Camouflage,” Paisley sings about his sympathy for those who find “the stars and bars” offensive, arguing that there are other ways “to show your Southern pride.”. But then after we respect it let's also. Happened so long ago right anywhere and at the same top list with suspected. The message here is one of compassion respect. To Kill a Mockingbird: An Accidental Racist "Accidental racist?" The video circulating yesterday and this morning has since been removed. As the representative of all black American males, Cool J just wants to “buy you a beer, conversate and clear the air,” but that white cowboy hat makes him uncomfortable. Cool J is apparently on board with the idea that the problem between whites and blacks today is based solely on a grudge, as if there aren’t any legitimate reasons these tensions would exist today. It may also be a savvy business strategy. But when that effort ends with LL Cool J saying, “RIP Robert E. Lee,” the cause has been utterly lost, again. In it, Giuliani can be heard using a stereotypical fake Chinese accent and seen mimicking a bow. White Man” to understand that, while his chains are gold and his pants are sagging, that doesn’t mean he’s a hoodlum. The -- musicians sat down together for an exclusive interview with ABC news. In terms -- -- Sometimes -- of skull and cross Mosul. Back to video library. Sure, the sin of American slavery is in the past, but racism neither begins nor ends with that practice. Paisley is sorry because he’s “just a proud rebel son, with an old can of worms.” This notion, that the Southern past makes many white Americans victims of circumstance, is returned to throughout the song. In the song, Paisley says we’re “fightin’ over yesterday … siftin’ through the rubble after a hundred-fifty years.” Thus he jumps from Reconstruction to the present, as though Jim Crow never happened, as though overt racist don’t happen anymore, as though, in 2013, there aren’t still high school students trying to integrate their prom. “Accidental Racist” appears on Paisley’s ninth studio album Wheelhouse, which debuts today; the video appears to have been pulled from the Internet, however. Forget the bitterness. Country music star and rapper address backlash from their new co-written song. Brad Paisley and LL Cool J team up for controversial song ‘Accidental Racist’ Country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J have teamed up for a song called "Accidental Racist" - and it's sparking an internet backlash. Most notably, Alan Scherstuhl, writing for the Village Voice, argues that “smart progressives” who dismiss the song fail to see how brave it is for both Paisley and Cool J to engage Paisley’s fans on this subject. -- That is prosecuting war exists only for his. And the song, with its qualified defense of the Confederate flag and its improbable Lost Cause logic offered up by a hip-hop legend, bear out those fears in rather stunning—if ridiculous—fashion. www.cc.com/video-clips/2sml1x/the-colbert-report--accidental-racist--song Watch LL Cool J Talks On Lyrics In "Accidental Racist" - it's the latest video from LL Cool J, having dropped on Friday, April 12th, 2013. And the rap legends say ultimately. -- in New York. Or the mass appeal of Michael Jackson's mega hit black or white. Country music star Brad Paisley has teamed up with LL Cool J on a song about racism, the lyrics of which have ignited controversy. We need to talk about it intelligently. The Accidental Racist How we unintentionally offend teammates and other sports participants. There's certainly nothing new. In his defense of “Accidental Racist,” Scherstuhl imagines millions of country fans soaking the song in, and gradually becoming more tolerant of black people. Me. Those words, in that order, read immediately like a cop out, an attempt to side-step responsibility for prejudiced thoughts or actual racist behavior. The song’s heart is, as Scherstuhl says, “in the right place,” but that doesn’t mean we should give a prejudiced person a pat on the back for trying and send them on their way. His song with Brad Paisley elicited a lot of strong opinions. The world was like you. 'SNL' Recap: 'Accidental Racist' Eliminates Discrimination (Video) NBC The Vince Vaughn-hosted episode also saw the launch of an HBO series in which Al Pacino plays different killers. To break outside my comfort zone and then basically. You missed a -- -- what is good. "The rapper and "NCIS: Los Angeles" star dropped by "The Tonight Show" and admitted that while he can't defend the song, he can at least try to clarify his intentions. You can read the lyrics here. So prominent -- got a confederate flag -- -- He's a -- -- these -- landed on YouTube Monday and has since been described as everything from a bad idea horrible and simply miss. Partly for that reason, after the initial round of predictable online mockery, some have risen to defend the song. Yup. To a black coffee shop worker who's offended by the confederate flag on the -- seizure. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? The combination of events led to the mother-of-two from Denbighshire becoming an "accidental activist". But the -- still strikes a chord. Paisley maintains that his heart is in the right place. Like the song. Rudy Giuliani mocked Asians by adopting a faux Chinese accent and performing a pretend bow in a video clip that was accidentally published on his YouTube channel. Rooms and stereotypes but you -- kids were -- simple premise -- explaining himself. And while “Accidental Racist” has attracted plenty of condemnation, at the same time at least a few fans have expressed appreciation and admiration for tackling a tough subject matter. Paisley begins the confessional country ballad by addressing it to “the man who waited on me/ At the Starbucks down on Main.” This man was apparently offended by the singer’s “red flag” (“red” here meaning Confederate) T-shirt. Who was even parity country music and his own work. -- it's the new country needs hip hop song -- That's anything but black and white. … But let’s not endorse a whole bunch of terrible ideas in the process. And you'll never see this message again. 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