KARD's tour manager clarifies that J.seph and Jiwoo did not say the N word 

KARD\'s tour manager clarifies that J.seph and Jiwoo did not say the N word

WILD KARD\' in Vancouver, Canada on the night of May 3, coed-group KARD was accused by people on the internet of doing something they didn\'t do.

During the show, the members took the time to show off their individual talents when J.seph and Jiwoo took the stage for a collaborative performance.  The duo sang

"B*tch Better Have My Money" by Rihanna and some people who saw fancam footage accused the two members of saying the \'N\' word via social media as the lyrics contain, "Louis XIII, and it\'s all on me, n-word, you just bought a shot..."

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To clear things up, KARD\'s tour manager made an official statement via

Instagram explaining the situation saying J.seph and Jiwoo did not say the \'N\' word but said "HITTER/HITTA" instead and even posted a clip on Soundcloud for proof.

"It seems like there is a lot of talk about Jiwoo & Jseph\'s part for their unit track. I\'m their tour manager and I just want to clear up that they did not say the N word but it was actually HITTER/HITTA. Jiwoo sang live over an AR track with her also saying HITTER. It\'s so upsetting to read some of the comments online about the members when they didn\'t say such things. Please follow the link in my profile to hear the full track and please do share so that the others know that it wasn\'t what they thought. They worked so hard for this tour and were so excited so please help clear this up. Thank you always for all the love and support."

It seems like there is a lot of talk about Jiwoo & Jseph\'s part for their unit track. I\'m their tour manager and I just want to clear up that they did not say the N word but it was actually HITTER/HITTA. Jiwoo sang live over an AR track with her also saying HITTER. It\'s so upsetting to read some of the comments online about the members when they didn\'t say such things. Please follow the link in my profile to hear the full track and please do share so that the others know that it wasn\'t what they thought. They worked so hard for this tour and were so excited so please help clear this up. Thank you always for all the love and support. #kard #jiwoo #jseph #bm #somin #지우 #소민 #카드 #wildkardtour #wildkardtour2017

(Asians singing BLACK Artist songs) = MORE TROUBLE THAN ITS WORTH! ... 

I suppose that I could dedicate this song above to KIM HYUN JOONG and IRON (Rapper) ; but let us keep an OPEN MIND ...

this is the fastest shut-down to a scandal I\'ve ever seen and other companies need to take note.

STOP CALLING NIGGA THE N WORD. THE N WORD IS NIGGER! LAWD Jesus learn the fucking difference.

Ha See? I was right. When I saw tweets and threads that claimed they said the n word I thought I was deaf or that they were deaf cause I did not hear the n word at all.                                                                                                                                                                             Their mind just became paranoid and assumed they said it because of the song\'s original lyrics and accused them of saying it and ruining their reputation when they didn\'t even do it!

In my view, it is a BAD IDEA for KARD Group to be doing a \'cover\' of *any* song that is originally by a BLACK singer. And in particular, a song that contains BLACK \'steet slang\' type words (lyrics). You *create* the RISK of EXACTLY this situation, where the manager is having to \'explain and apologize\' as is happening now with KARD Group. And TROLLS will use this ; as best that they can figure out to do that ; to \'rip\' at KARD Group.

The reality is that KARD Group does NOT need to be doing this \'cover\' of a BLACK Artist song. The *DOWN SIDE* to that ; is FAR GREATER than any \'up side\' to it. Putting it another way ; it is MORE TROUBLE THAN IT IS WORTH.

Then you should say the the sameness thing to other Kpop artist.

So it would be okay for them to sing a song by a White artist? Or should they only cover artists that are Korean? I\'m Black and I can\'t speak for everyone but I have no problem with people of other races covering songs by a Black artist. I don\'t think they should use the n-word, but it seems that KARD didn\'t even use that word so this controversy is all over nothing

I am sorry, but the reasoning is not "so they shouldn\'t sing any song originally by a black singer" as you say, because it\'s racism and exclusion the same way. If they only sang english songs by white singers netzens would be saying "aaah KARD only does cover of white musicians? What about black musicians?" Netzens will ALWAYS find a way to accuse singers if they want to, the better option is just to ignore. They showed proof nothing happened so let netzens scream as long as they want.

Tbh honest I\'m not black but i do say nigga a lot to my black&nonblack friends and they\'re totally okay with it. maybe only black Americans who has a problem with it?

American netizens, most international netizens didn\'t care.

RIGHT !!! ... GET THOSE *INTERNATIONAL* FANS who have POLLUTED K-POP VALUES !!! ...

I HEARD HITTA AND I LAUGHED SO HARD, plus lets be srious they have BM so the chances of them saying the n word is like 0

People making a fuss for no reason, glad to see it has been clarified. Love & support to KARD and their debut!

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