Terrence Howard Wants Empire To Turn Up By Using The N-word

 Terrence Howard thinks that the N-word can and should be used by anyone .. black or white and it will even give the show EMPIRE more authenticity. He thinks his character Luscious Lyon should take Empire to the next level by throwing in a couple of N-words in season two’s script to give it more street cred. After all its just a 'noun'  he added.

Terrence says the show did away with being politically correct when it featured his character dumping a 6-year-old Jamal, dressed in drag, in the trash. He feels Empire should continue going down that non-PC path.

Sitting with Access Hollywood Live, Terrence made a case for the use of the word on the show by highlighting its prevalence in the black community and admitting that he not only calls his white friends the N-word, but that they say it, too. After all, it’s only a noun, says the Oscar-nominated actor.

His definition of the N-word:

It could mean ‘love.’ Sometimes it’s a noun, sometimes it’s a verb, sometimes it’s an adjective. There’s a spirit attached to it. My dad uses it, my brothers use it. I’m hoping that maybe I won’t use it with my son but I don’t know if I’ll be honest if I didn’t use it with my son. My friends use it. I call my white friends, ‘What’s up, my n-ggas?’ It has taken on this term to us, but it’s blown out of proportion outside the world. So I don’t know.

[Not everybody can use it] but some of my white friends I’ve grown up with, that I talk to on a daily basis, when they use it, it doesn't have any [malicious] intent associated with it. It’s just a noun now. It’s adjective. It’s an adverb. It describes a moment, it describes a feeling and no longer describes a state of a race or human being.

When me and Lee Daniels talk to each other, we use it — on a daily basis. Our texts, this is what we use. Whether Lee gets mad about this or anybody else — I’m just being honest. The word is used. If one person can use it, then everybody should use it. But if white people use it, you gotta remember to take the -er off of it. And if somebody got a problem with how I feel about it, they can kiss my f-ckin’ black a-s.

Despite Terrence’s admission that he and show creator and writer Lee Daniels be dropping the N-word on a daily basis, Lee is against adding it to season two’s scripts. It’s a also a no from Taraji P. Henson, who plays Cookie. Despite the fact that Cookie looks like she drops the N-word in every sentence, Taraji told a local Fox news station:

These people came from the hood. Cookie did time in jail 17 years.  You think she’s ever been called one or used it? I think the show is doing just fine without the word on network television, but know that, if this was a movie or on cable TV that word would be in the script.