Quite a few on here call each other ******, that's a popular trait. I'm not street enough to get this, obviously.
An awful word! I get annoyed when black mates use it with each other in front of me. And I'm as white and pasty as it gets
As a white guy in a city that is 66% black, I wouldn't use either phrase and both phrases make me cringe coming from a bunch of non-Africans. There again, racial curse words are taken less casually here in the American South.