Nelson George, director of HBO's Life Support and Jamie Foxx are teaming up to make a documentary examining Black America's favorite word. Can you guess what it is?

"I've done a ton of research on it and Jamie's going to work on it and also be on camera," Nelson George told AllHipHop.com. "We're going to do this whole funny, humorous look at the history of this word that black people use so much. Hopefully, God willing, we'll be working on that this summer."

The film will mark the second time George and Foxx have worked together.

I've never been able to find anything to confirm this — although I haven't looked very hard — but I've heard two versions of the origin of "motherfucker." The first is that it was a slur used against slaves who were forced by their masters to procreate with their mothers, sisters, and other relatives to increase their numbers on the plantation after the slave trade was abolished. The second was that it came from overseers and slave masters sleeping with female slaves. If either story is even close to true, the word was born out of something very painful. Leave it to us to turn it into a joke!

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