The word 'nigger' doesn't necessarily mean black. I used the word 'nigger' because it's a word to describe somebody that is basically a pain in your life, a problem.
I don't like being told what I can and what I can't say. I used words like police and niggers because you're not allowed to use the word 'nigger.' Why can black people go up to each other and say, 'Nigger,' but when a white guy does it all of a sudden it's a big putdown? I don't like boundaries of any kind. In a 1989 Rolling Stone interview, Rose explained the lyrics: Critic Jon Pareles noted that "with 'One in a Million' on G 'n' R Lies, the band tailored its image to appeal to white, heterosexual, nativist prejudices, denouncing blacks, immigrants and gays while coyly apologizing 'to those who may take offense' in the album notes." Getting really far away from all my friends and family in Indiana." Controversy Īccusations of homophobia, nativism and racism were levelled against singer and lyricist Axl Rose. 'Cos he couldn't believe I would write that… The chorus came about because I was getting, like, really far away like ' Rocket Man (song)', Elton John… Like in my head.
And it stuck with me… When I said 'Police and niggers/that's right,' that was to fuck with (band associate) Wes (Arkeen)'s head. "I was picturing trying to call me if, like, I disappeared or died… The chorus – 'You're one in a million' – someone said that to me once, real sarcastically.
"I came up with 'We tried to reach you but you were much too high,'" Rose told Mick Wall.
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