Top 5 N-Bomb Droppings In Recent History

This week via voicemail audio files Mel Gibson can be heard cursing out and threatening the life of his ex-girlfriend. But only last week also via leaked voicemail messages, Gibson dropped the N-bomb. (What would Danny Glover's Lethal Weapon character Det. Murtaugh think?) So in case you’ve forgotten, we thought we remind everyone that Mel now joins a group of public personality peers guilty of the same offense. Let's stroll down memory lane and take a quick look back at some other high profile folks, who by putting their foot in their mouths, helped us round out our Top 5 N-Bomb Droppings in Recent History. —Ronke Idowu Reeves

5.Paris Hilton


In a You Tube video (no longer found on the site) Paris and sister Nicky were seen dancing to the Notorious B.I.G. single, “Hypnotize,” Paris then commented that the two of them were, “like two n***ers.”

4.Charlie Sheen


Like Gibson, Sheen’s N-word outburst came via voicemail message but the betrothed recipient in this case was his ex-wife, Denise Richards as they were approaching splitsville. Sheen’s message for his former wifey? “I hope I never f**king talk to you again you f**king c**t. You’re a coward and a liar and a f**king n**ger alright, so f**k you.”

3.John Mayer



In a Playboy interview, America’s favorite cool white boy rocker declared that he had a “hood pass” because the black community loved him so much. Then Mayer clarified that a hood pass could equally be called a “n***er pass.”

2.Michael Richards


The daddy of N-word bombs hurled and seen around the world. Captured on video via cellphone in 2007, Richards imploded and exploded on a black man and his interracial group of friends at L.A.'s Laugh Factory. As the group was being seated during his act, Seinfeld’s beloved Kramer screamed, “Fifty years ago, we’d have you upside down with a f**king fork up your ass. You can talk, you can talk, you’re brave now motherf**ker. Throw his ass out he’s a ni***r! He’s a ni***r, look, there’s a ni***r!”

1. Jesse Jackson


And finally, (drum roll) the Grandaddy of the N-word bomb comes courtesy of the man who walked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1960s and called rappers to task for using the N-word in their music over the past 20 years. (A little backstory: Jesse had beef with how our current President, then candidate Barack Obama was relating to Blacks during the 2008 presidential election. In off-air remarks caught on a live microphone during an appearance on the FOX network, Jackson said about Obama, “I want to cut his nuts off.”) Then, Jackson who counseled Richards after his N-word short-circuiting and later called for a ban on word altogether, referred to all African Americans as the slur when he added, “Obama is trying to tell n****rs how to behave.”


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