Mon 29 Oct 2007
well…not that “talk.” A different but equally relevant one.
Nas tells Rolling Stone, that his “N—-r” album is…
“…like talking to your child about sex. It’s hard, but it’s important. It’s probably going to make people uncomfortable.”
But its a conversation that Nas feels is crucial right now, especially what with nooses being the new swastikas on the street and all. (triple sigh)
“It’s the new act of hate, and probably because of Barack Obama, people’s ignorance and fear and jealousy is creating an outrage throughout the country, and people are reacting by putting nooses up. It’s been a really serious year.”
I appreciate the fact that Nas is still 90% artist and only 10% businessman. Maybe even less than 10%.
Nas says: “I don’t expect a lot of people to sell a record called Nigger. Hopefully, people can open their minds up and lose some of their fear and deal with it. It’s just an album.”
Well not to Hakeem Jeffries. The Brooklyn councilman wants the city to take back its investment in Universal Records unless they force Nas to change his album title. Hakeem says: “It is time for Nas and other hip-hop artists to clean up their act and stop flooding the airwaves with the N-word.”
Flooding the airwaves? Umm…He must be paying for that satellite shit.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
“I appreciate the fact that Nas is still 90% artist and only 10% businessman. Maybe even less than 10%”
you damn right!!! nigga is not a businessman,
Nas your a window shopper, mad at me i think i know why.
naming your album nigger is stupid. nas fell off big time. he’s gone tooo intellectual, and thats seperating him from his fans, we dont wanna hear that shit, we wanna hear ‘made you look’!
October 29th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I don’t see what the problem is with calling his album “Nigga” or “Nigger”, 90% of the rappers use the term in there music so whats the difference if he decides to name his album after the word that most rappers use. Nas uses the word at 20 times on every last album he has made and his first album came out in 1994, So if it wasn’t a problem then whats the problem now?
October 29th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
It’s time black people stop giving a fuck about the word “nigger”. Get money
October 29th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Is this where we want to be in America shouldn’t this man be able to name his album what ever he wants. If you dis agree then don’t support it don’t buy the album, don’t go to the concerts.
Can I just say this also we as the black hip hop generation brought this on our selfs with the whole Don Imus thing. A lot of people didn’t like his attempt at a joke but whether you believe Imus is a racist or not he should have the right to say what he wants even if it is in your opinion hate speech. Because when you start point the finger at other people telling them they can say things like that then you open the door for other people to say the same for you. In the words of DL Hugly freedom of speech is a zero-sum proposition ether you believe in it or you don’t. If it’s ok for Nas to name his alum Nigga then it’s ok for Don Imus to call someone a nappy headed hoe.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Nas must be proud that the whole Hip Hop community stand firm behind him (pause lol) without even have heard one song! Me, I just feel that Nas (a very intelligent man) use this controversy as a publicity stunt. He use the same trick for his last album “Hip Hop Is Dead” : a provocative title without any substance. Because for real what was behind that ? Except the title track and the well written “Who Killed It” : nada !
Now in this album “Nigger” what does he plan to say? I want to believe (because I’m still a fan) that Nas is gonna come with something deep, but I’m scared…
October 30th, 2007 at 12:30 am
# 5 i totally agree with the publicity stunt.Yes he call his album whatever he likes but i thought dude was wayyy!! intelligent than that. some going to see it for what it is and some not
if he’s going to talk to some one he needs to talk to himself about WHy ? and the consequence’s of naming he album that. I still love love the dude he’s still the illiest mofu out here but i can’t respect this decision
October 30th, 2007 at 3:42 am
#5 you definitely have said it all. I am just really concerned that this album will fail me just as the last one did. I have mad respect for Nas, but naming your album “nigga” betta be more than just a stunt. Dialogue takes more than one person, so how can one artist carry such a load?
March 1st, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Nas knows what he is doing. It makes sense, If u get offended by a word that today means nothing.The word nigga has no ture definition it’s a MADE UP WORD to oppress and bring down. U’re only oppressed if u let urself be oppressed. I mean u give power to a word that has no sting and by doing so u urself give the word it’s present day sting. I’m full blooded Cape Verdian. A set of islands of the westcoast of Africa that was colonized due to slavery.So to say that if it was not for slavery there would be no Cape Verde. Do I hate the idea of slavery? Yes,Do Wish it never happened? Yes, but do I accept it happened?Yes. All we can do is understand history and aviod renacting it. The word Nigger means shit to me I mean, I laugh when someone gets offened by the word, because how are u going to get mad over a word that has no meaning.If you let the word hold its sting than u might as well still believe in slavery because that the only situation in which the word sould have power to offend. In my opinion.