It's not quite the same thing as envy, which doesn't have the same moral dimension, but sure it's not like N was a totally original thinker on this point.
(I mean, when I envy a playah, I'm not necessarily insinuating that the playah is morally bad. I'm just jealous. ;))
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
> N. didn't come up with that. Envy is one of the seven
> deadly sins from
> N's favorite slave religion, Christianity.
> "Haterism" or "hating", as
> the hiphoppers call it.