Nas Confirms Album Title Will Be Epithet

Orizio

Whatever about the title, which has been used in countless titles and tracks, this album will never be released by the start of December and if its main producers are going to be Diddy and Remi, is going to be ****.

NEW YORK (AP) — To some, it's a hurtful racial epithet. For Nas, it's an album title.

The rapper told MTV News that he would indeed be naming his new album after the N-word. And he denied earlier reports that the album's title would be spelled "N---a," considered in some circles a less inflammatory epithet. He said the disc is due out Dec. 11.

"(People) shouldn't trip off the (album's) title; the songs are crazier than the title," he said in an interview posted on MTV's Web site.

But some have been outraged by the rapper's choice.

"The title using the 'N' word is morally offensive and socially distasteful. Nas has the right to degrade and denigrate in the name of free speech, but there is no honor in it," the Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a news release. "Radio and television stations have no obligation to play it and self-respecting people have no obligation to buy it. I wish he would use his talents to lift up and inspire, not degrade."

There were reports that his label, Def Jam, had scuttled the title idea. But Nas told MTV that he has had no opposition from the label, and said his intent in naming the album the N-word was to take the sting out of it.

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Saying that, new Wu, Nas, Jay, Lupe and Cunninlynguists for Christmas makes me happy.

Jay Ru

taken from hiphopgame.com

While Nas has stirred up a lot of controversy recently by claiming that his new album would be titled “Nigga,” a source close to L.A. Reid told FoxNews.com “there is no album release by Nas on the release schedule at this point. And they (Def Jam) would be unlikely to release an album with that title. How would that look at Wal-Mart?”

Chances are Nas wasn’t thinking of Wal-Mart when he named his next album.

Evzer

Glad that ****in eejit wasnt allowed come out with another massive publicity stunt of a meaningless title...

Orizio

As far as I know the album will indeed be called '******'.

Jay Ru

yeah, looks like the project is going ahead and nas had some harsh words for some label exec's over at def jam in a recent interview. personally i don't see this as being a good idea, it may cause more harm than nas thinks, musically i haven't much faith in this album, i definitely think that nas' best is far behind him. with the exception of god's son and stillmatic, none of his other albums come close to illmatic. his double album was well below what i wud expect from "sin" and his last opus was only average. nas is still one of the greatest artist in the game right now but i think he's feelin himself a little to much these days