Kanye West has posted a series of questions on his Twitter feed, probing the use of profanity in hip hop.

Kanye West’s love of social networking has been long documented. The rapper’s Twitter feed regularly doles out spectacular statements, and tonight the hip hop icon decided to indulge himself in a rather one sided debate.

Opening the discussion, the rapper wrote: “I usually never tweet questions but I struggle with this so here goes... Is the word BITCH acceptable?”

“To be more specific, is it acceptable for a man to call a woman a bitch even if it's endearing? Even typing it in question form it's still feels harsh? Has hip hop conditioned us to accept this word? Do we love this word as much as we love the word NIGGA in an endearing way?”

“correction, Here's the age old question, would we refer to our mothers as bitches? Would' we call our fathers niggers or better yet NIGGAS? If nigga is such a positive word, why do we feel so uncomfortable for white people to say it, even with a hall pass? Is it ok to use bitch as long as we put BAD in front of it? Like you a BAD BITCH. Perhaps the words BITCH and NIGGA are now neither positive or negative. They are just potent and it depends on how the are used and by whom?”

Later, the rapper admitted that he does feel awkward when listening to earlier material which makes liberal use of profanity.

“I was recently questioned about the use of the word BITCH in my music and initially was offended by anyone questioning anything in my music... Stevie Wonder never had to use the word bitch to get his point across.”

“I will admit that I sometimes go back an omit cursing from my records. I like to use profanity as a tool and not a crutch...”

Finishing, Kanye West wrote: “I'm not tweeting to say what we need and what we don't... I just wanted to think out loud with you guys today...”

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