Fri 23 May 2008
Miss Info Exclusive: Nas’ “Be a N—-r Too” Poster
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fans who felt disillusioned by Nas’ pragmatic decision to unname his album “N—-r,” can look forward to Nas’ taking the politically incorrect, unsubtle approach with his upcoming “Be a N—-r Too” video. Rik Cordero and Nas shot the video last week in LA (and some parts here in NY) and the concept will be very familiar to movie buffs. I can’t give away any more, but I’ll say that there will be some celebrity cameos. And not the usual “hey, these are random rappers that I don’t know that well but who will show up when I shoot a video and pretend to party with me in this rented space with the rest of my casted modeltypes” cameos.
There will be more preview posters tomorrow, but this one is especially striking, and horrifying, and powerful. Next week, there will be an exclusive viewing of the video. I definitely look forward to it.
(thanks to rik and steve)
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:32 am
i really hate this guy really really
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May 23rd, 2008 at 3:26 am
1st… looks like nas keeps losing.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 3:32 am
Hey Miss Info, is it just me or did the 50 cent v Rocsi post disappear? I saw the videos all got removed, is big brother watching? I ain’t talking Yeezy and Jay. Did you get some pressure?
Answer in code as 5-8-zeros might be listening…
Also Nas took an ‘L’ over his album title. I was hoping we’d see some introspective-check-your-dialog-controversy.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 3:49 am
HE’S TAKING US BACK TO THE SLAVE SHIP DAYS HUH?
NAS HAS MADE A NEW CAREER OUT OF MAKING PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE AND WANTING TO STICK A BIG ASS FORK INTO HIS LEFT EYE.
BEING THAT I’M COSTA RICAN I SEE THIS AS HIS ART BUT I HEARD A COUPLE OF IRRITATED BLACK FOLKS.DAMN HOMIE.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 3:54 am
Longtime Nas fan, not too sure about this. But like you said their will be flashes of brilliance in there. Oh and please no Kelis collabos. lol
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May 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 am
i’ve been unsure about all this since the beginning. but i think i’ve decided to trust nas. call me a fool but i feel like i have some weird personal stake in him as an artist, regardless of how many people are losing their affinity for him.
rik is always tasteful, as well.
i’m looking forward to this.
i wanna see sir cordero do the video for saigon and just’s “believe it” joint. it’s shaping up to my summer anthem.
you better believe it. woh oh. woh ohhh.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 4:56 am
>> 1st… looks like nas keeps losing.
co-sign but his stream of bad luck seems to be getting saved here.
Rik Corder/Three21Media = visionnaries that can bring it back to the essence and then push it in the right direction
I’ve said it before and I’ll repeat it, this is how things are supposed to be done… not in front of a GreenScreen of QueensBridge
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May 23rd, 2008 at 5:23 am
NAS = GOAT. this is art… it’s suppose to make you uncomfortable. and an album title is pointless… what matters is the album’s content. the album is now untitled but we all know what everyone will call it regardless. “omg i know people who are ticked off”… lol so? it’s time that artist stop taking the “safe” approach and push the boundaries of creativity and expression. is the word “nigga” not said in every damn hip hop line… oh but god forbid an artist wants to speak on the actual word. this is hip hop… but i guess lil wayne rapping about loli pops is the new standard now. gtfoh!
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May 23rd, 2008 at 5:27 am
Come on haters, how can you hate a talented creative and diligent rapper like NAS. He seems to educate a lot of us ignorant bastards, because we are so brain washed by our slave masters and can not learn to support good things such as the “Nigger” album.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 5:30 am
Hooray For Hip Hop! I hope yall listen to this album. After reading some of these responses It’s painfully obvious that ignorance has run rampant in the “Hip Hop Community”
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May 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 am
why cant he just be a good rapper, and release non-intimidating ‘happy’ music that you can bump in the whip and club? I don’t see why he is trying to be so difficult. This release will never go 5X Platinum, Nas is going to flop and become bankrupt, just like his skills as an emcee.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 8:33 am
Dont see how he takes an L or how this isnt a food for thought from a poltical/social standpoint concept.
This album may not even gold but at least hes doing something he wants to express.
Lets see what happens.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 10:54 am
He’s certainly a genius at taking risks and making people pay attention to him He did it with Hip Hop Is Dead and I believe this album will have the same impact.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
niggaz is a mess, what happened to the spirit of hiphop? THis is what this shit is about son. Cube had a joint called cave bitch which im sure ruffled some feathered and horny lil devil, we been doin this but the game is so watered down and money hungry that we get scared at the 1st sign of resistance when this whole culture was born off of rebellion its wack that people try to act like they are above this when we use this fucking term all day long (which i dont like but use by habit) and act like this album is a big deal. Nas may lose today but you slaves are gonna lose in the long run when they start telling dudes what they can and cant rap about. I thought Uncle Luke won this battle 15 years ago
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May 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
If not Nas, then who? Somebody has do to it. And I’m not even trying to make him some type of martyr or whatever. It’s just that people beg for people to be different and all that, but when it finally DOES happen, ‘oh he lost,’ ‘it’s a publicity stunt’…gtfoh..
There’s such a hypocrisy amongst a vast majority of hip-hop fans. The same thing can be said about Jay’s ‘Kingdom Come’. As soon as he went and veered away he usually did, the general consensus was that it was a ‘wack’ album.
I’m with Nas on this all the way. We all know he’s going to be able to address this thing with sense, because it’s Nas. Now if Flavor Flav called his next album ‘N!gg*r’, THEN we could all grind our teeth…
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May 23rd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
This aint art this is like that busta rhymes linkin park song trying too hard…. All i want to know is what is he going to come up with for his next album i know “hip hop is dead you coon ass niggas” lets just release it so it can flop so we can get that before i self destruct…. Fuck tos
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May 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I’m still giving Nas the side-eye a little bit, but this poster is real powerful…Its gonna make a lot of people who want to avoid this conversation look at it face first…a conversation that has been avoided for hundreds of years…
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May 23rd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I CANT WAIT FOR THIS ALBUM,THERE AINT NOTHING SPECIAL OUT RIGHT NOW BUT IM SURE NAS WILL BRING THE SPARK BACK.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I’m sorry but lets be real.
Everyone complains about these artist not going back to the hood or living in the hood or how they can’t walk in the hood
T.I.-Bankhead
Nas-Queensbridge
50-Jamaica Queens
Jay Z-Marcy
Do u actually expect those people to still be in the hood?
I guess their music is measured by if they are in the hood or not
Like let’s be serious
Modern day reality: *Jack Boys(stick up kids) see rich person in the hood;what they gonna do? rob ‘em. Point.Blank. Period.
And it’s not that that situation would happen, but they might can’t dragged back into situations that they dont need to be in.
Look @ T.I., ya probably laughed at him for having those guns and probably said he was stupid.
Yet if he didnt do it ya would say “T.I. aint real”
Ya N***** is backwards….
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May 23rd, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I see what Nas is doing. He’s actually doing it right now while I am typing this. He has us thinking again. I mean think about it what better way to get promotions around an album when no company is giving up that marketing dollars then to stur up the pot with a title like N*gger! I mean think about it if he is taking us back to when rappers were talkin bout more then just how much money they got, how much drugs they sold, or what they got. I hope this album really does live up to the hype of all this talk!
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May 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
If this isn’t a publicity stunt and he really wants to get a message across then I applaud him. But just the fact that he changed the title just to get it into stores tells me it’s the former. A real visionary would’ve pulled it off the tables from the majors and released it online. I’m just saying…
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May 23rd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
oh man i hate this guy f..k Nas,wow i hate him
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May 24th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Nas is the truth……he’s tryin to do somthin real unlike them “self-proclaimed best rappers alive” aka Lil Wayne…and his baby party songs..He may not break record sales but he’s doin somethin positive, jus like his song “I Can” and his album Hip Hop is dead
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May 24th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Question for you’ll ignorant people or rappers? If a say a rapper can say nigga on fan album 500 times, can say B*tch 500 times, can say I going to kill at will you wackness! But Nas the GOAT, god’s son, No, I’m Gangster gotta eat rappers! Try to make an album about social conscienceness he is doing it for a publicity stunt! Get out of my face, I have realize it no longer black vs. white, it’s uneducated vs. educated! If you don’t get it you are uneducated! Final Verdict
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May 24th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Miss Info, you got let me know about that private screening!!!!
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May 24th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Nas is a true hip hop lyricist and genius. what do ya’ll think that just because people bury the word nigger it is no longer relevant. it will always be relevant just like racism. as long as people keep acting ignorant and irresponsible the word will still be relevant. the media has so many peoples head fucked up that they think good music and artists are supposed to supersoak that ho. WAKE UP AND REALIZE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF NAS TO HIP-HOP AND TRY TO NAME A RAPPER NAS AIN’T INFLUENCE. ALL YA’LL HATERS ARE JUST A BUNCH OD VILAGE IDIOTS
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May 25th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Naz iz a G 4 dis…cuz madd ppl wanna b black 4 da positive aspect 0f it….but naz iz putn ppl 0n 2 da h0le picture ….I respeCt dat shyt……
CBB……FUkk YGZ
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May 25th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
i think nas is doing the right thing. hes just trying to get the messag across but no one wants to listen. but f*ck who ever dont want to listen.
hes a strong black man on his grind and ppl dont want to see that.
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May 26th, 2008 at 12:51 am
RIP camu tao
DEF JUX
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May 27th, 2008 at 1:21 am
hello miss info. I’m tryin 2 understand somethin. people r actin like its something wrong 4 him 2 call a CD nigger or even have a poster & video with the images that have been created by the united states. it was ok 4 people 2 say nigger b4 as well as it was ok 4 people 2 lynch blacks. now u get upset cause nas has said it or has shown the people what was done b4. a u may say it wasn’t ok 4 people 2 lynch but they did without any consequences. & still do 2 this day. if I was nas I wouldn’t have changed the name of the CD. he will make $ anyway just by using the name. contrary 2 what people think the negative press will be what helps the CD move.
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May 27th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
to some degree it is a loss but I think this whole thing is being analysed way too much, it’s as if the idea of concept is dead… regardless of why it has the name, accept it & judge it on the content.
it’s not the first time the word has been used, maybe not as a album title but definitly a name of a song.
not everyone is gonna be happy but it’s impossible to please all at the same time
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May 27th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Nas is an unrecognized genius, the only one of these uncle tom sell out rappers willing to put truth out there no matter how much it hurts his reputation. He may be unorthodox at times and says things in ways that people dont undertand, but its always real.
any true Nas fan will get it, if u dont, you never got Nas in the first place.
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May 30th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I heard the private screening was yesterday. I read a review for it on allhiphop.com, sounds promising. You got to let us know what you think, Info!!!
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