Nas’ New LP Titled ‘N*gger’ Draws Controversy

Quote:“nas has the right to degrade and denigrate in the name of free speech, but there is no honor in it. Radio and television stations have no obligation to play it, and self-respecting people have no obligation to buy it."end quote i have enough selfrespect to understand what message nas is trying to get across.. People should stop taking this sh*t so literally and try to get the message behind the words.

Cosign to njt. Theres probly a meaning behind it. And it still confuses me why white america cares so damn much what we say.

I had a son i was young and runnin wild i named him nasir baby nasir jones

They hype over the word for no reason

Niggers N*gg*rs yeah cold turn tha party out !!!!!!!!!

The only black show on fox is cops.

First off, the title is doing exactly what it should do. Stir up talk and controversy, that equals album sales and free promotion. Just like hhid attracted hip hop's attention, now he's going global. Haters will buy his album just to burn it in protest or disect it for media purposes so now millions will want to hear what he has to say. Also, nas is trying to reignite a fire where shyt really matters in hip hop because we're falling off. He isn't even my favorite artist **cough**jay-z**cough** but i totally understand the point nas is trying to make and salute his efforts. Long live "N*gg*rrrrrrr"

In the 70s cats used to call their albums all types of wild sh*t, including n*gga. I dont see what the big deal. If a white dude did it, that's something else. Hell, aint there a rock dude called "uncle kracker"?

Nas it the truest rapper F*ck jay-z .

Nas is just trying to stir up sh*t. With all this racism crap that's going on, he's trying to add fuel to the fire. We hate it when non-blacks call us that word, now they are going to have all the more reason to use that word. Hell, it's as if we are justifying the meaning of it. I can't stand jesse jackson either and he doesn't speak for me. But nas is making a dumb move. Even if he has something positive to say, there's no reason to be naming your album N*gg*r. This is the dumbest move nas has ever made.

Sd- what are you talking about? no where in this article does it mention "white america". Do you know that jesse jackson is black or that the naacp is for the a.vancement of c.olored p.eople. Stop being racist. Actually, stop being an idiot.

First off didn't he already have a greatest cd album about not so long ago?? second,dj toomp? jd? diddy? producing a nas album?? what part of the game is that?? oh yea and shouldn't jesse jackson be worrying about the military recruiting black kids to go out into iraq to die for oil?? or what about philly's black-on-black murder rate?? or the aids epidemic in the black community?? get on your job jesse and stop being a ambulance chaser!!!

^ diddy aint no producer, they say he produced that jay-z song 'roc boys' ... He probably paid someone else to do it, checked it out later, & said 'it's tight' ... That's what they call in the game, 'executive producer'

I'm torn about the n-word. But just because white people shouldn't say it is no reason to say we can't. It doesn't justify anything that anyone else says. It's time for america to stop making hip hop the scapegoat. They won't be happy until every black man is in jail.

Interesting to see so many supportive comments of the album name. Although nas may have good intentions, i think his approach is trash. It is disrespectful to the black ancestors and the civil rights movement people that have tried so hard and sacrificed so much to erase the word. To bring it back is moving backwards, not forward. Black community is suffering because of the "thug life" mentality. True black role models are the likes of colin powell.

Man if the album is good, he can call it whatever.

Nas always has a deep meaning in his music. I think we should at least hear what the man has to say before we start picking apart his work.

If nas had a point to this besides record sales than he would have found a better way to express it. Any black person with self respect and respect for their hertiage would tense at the word N*gg*r. It's a shame that some of our people want to put the word back in the mouths of those who tore our ancestors down with it. It's also a shame that nas would talk to or refer to jesse james comments the way he did...if it wasn't for jesse and other great men like him, he wouldn't have free speech because he'd just be a N*gg*r!

Go to barnes & nobles. Look in the african american section...somewhere in the back. And look for titles that start with n...nas isnt the first.

Dick gregory wrote a book in 1964 titled: N*gg*r, the autobiography

I was just thinkin to myself "wasn't there a book called 'N*gg*r'?" everyone just has something to say cuz it's hip-hop. If nas was writing a book then jesse jackson's ass wouldn't care... Everyone needs to shut the F*ck up and understand that nas isn't mocking the word, but trying to take the power away from it. The fact that everyone sh*tted their pants when they heard of the album shows that the word still has power, and hopefully there is a way to take its power away. At least nas is trying... I don't see jesse jackson helping.

1st of all black people have to stop thinking themselves as a n*gga white people brown people yellow people are n*ggas as well, so hopfullie nas is going to put osme mind blowing sh*t on this album to, like paul mooney says it best "everybody wants to be a n*gga but no one wants to be a n*gga" so white people need to stay in the place, and stop tryna be down for every movement cause you cant relate to our struggle and i dont care if you with us or against us because at the end of the day your not us...................

Richard pryor used the word n@#@r the most in his comedy. Then he traveled outside the us and not only did he say he never said the word n#gger while he was away, he never even thought it. It was his surroundings. Nas is naming his next album ni##er because there are people who act like it. But saying this is a political statement, raising controversy, taking the "white" man's power away from the word is a bunch of bull. As long as we surround ourselves with ignorance, we will act ignorant, we will talk ignorant, we will be viewed as ignorant. Nas doing anything positive or political by doing this. All he is doing is acting and being another (title to his album)

Nas is the god son for real. I understand to the upmost what the god is trying to do. He can name his album what ever he wants to point blank end of story. Jesse jackson or any so called political individual can get in contact with the god and he will talk to you just like he said. If anything, people that have a problem with that title should do the knowledge and see where he's coming from. I like that title because in a sense he's working the system inside out. Nas is bringing back concoius by using a word that has america on it's heels and N*gg*rs who ever that refers to might get some enlightment from it. Everybody still mad at him about that last album he put out almost a year ago. Not to point fingers but did anyone notice at the b.e.t awards that certain artist kept saying hiphop isn't dead were from the south. If they are still mad about that than they obviously didn't get the message in that album. Hopefully N*gg*r will shed some light. Peace to the god nas!!!!!!

Lol thats F*ckn hilarious sun..hahahhah.....brap...thas that n*gga sh*t...n*gga

Thats not a cool album title. Nigger is a curse word and should be placed in the same category as F*ck, sh*t, etc would it be cool to name your album "F*ck" or "sh*t" come on nas your smarter than that hopefully he explains his reason for naming the album "N*gg*r" through the music on the album

Dont do it nas that word is soooooooooooooooooooooo ugly!!!!!!

Nigger N*gg*r N*gg*r....hahaha...its fun...when nas makes N*gg*r fun,the world forgets its ugliness...it makes it go away...N*gg*r N*gg*r N*gg*r N*gg*r N*gg*r...hahaha...maybe i'll start a restaurant called "N*gg*rs"..."N*gg*rs fried chicken"...you know youd eat there!

Nas is the man. Jesse jackson is not a black man. Im dis-owning him for the race. Shit al sharpton to. They serve the powers that be. They get paid from the people against what the think they represent. They didnt walk with king. They are prime examples of the phare uncle tom. Even a street n*gga bump jeezy (no diss) dont know nothing about hip-hop will say the n*gga nas is to complex to listen to. Our older leadings still have that slave mentality. They are afriad of the word, (cause they truely know what if means and feel to be call that on the daily) and theres nothing wrong with that. Im trying to make the point that the times have changed and what it means to be black has changed im not saying if good or bad or whatever. Im saying how are you gone represent what you dont know. "F*ck black leaders cause whites ain't got none leading them."

Where was the controversy when pac named his album "strictly 4 my n*ggaz"....its nothin the only reason media pushin it is because sharpten..the whole purpose is so everyone isn't soo offended when they hear the word, that word will never die so y not get use to it

Interesting to see so many supportive comments of the album name. Although nas may have good intentions, i think his approach is trash. It is disrespectful to the black ancestors and the civil rights movement people that have tried so hard and sacrificed so much to erase the word. To bring it back is moving backwards, not forward. Black community is suffering because of the "thug life" mentality. True black role models are the likes of colin powell. Posted by truth i think the black ancestors and civil rights movement people would be more upset to se what we have accomplish in the last 40 years so many black people in jail, black on black crime like bloods and crips, the lack of education in our communities, drug dealers, lack of common sense we need people like nas instead of hey bay bay or superman that hoe please we can go on and on

Aint the news got more important things to cover, like the iraqi war or how bush & cheney raping us outta our healthcare & social security ... Oh i forgot, the news is only there is to divert our attention from those things

Yay!!!! nas...he's backing himself and letting jesse & the naacp revel in thier own contradiction. I respect thier statement, but a title may mean more than meets the eye or ear...and they're ignoring that

Fox news does suck!!!!!!!!!! F*ck bill orielly and al them other fox foos

........i know nas is going to have something intelligent to say, maybe. I just wonder if the intellectual inquiry will be enough to counter all the public outcry against the album......... In the wake of all the crime and negative situations black america finds itself in now days, coupled with aligations of inferiority as made by eugenics believers, arthur jensen, j phillipe rushton, and now james watson the famed dna pioneer to name a few mad scientists.... Nas is, i believe, to be pushing hip hop in a good direction, i'm just not sure if he's the right guy for the job...... Titling his lp "N*gg*r" might be too much for him to handle....

To the person that said they(jesse jackson/al sharpton) didn't walk with mlk u are mistaken..jesse walked with king during all the civil rights marches,as a matter of fact he was right there on the balcony when king got shot

"jack, mo ndooge no na onye n'adee efiri se at any point in time no, obiara ne ne wassup".........all i wanna say is let nas do his on thing cos the harm is been done centuries ago.

Nas is a douchbag. I am his biggest fan since the zebra head days. This is going to damn far. Get together. Homie. These are our hero's???

Jesse jackson never had a job but he has millions

Marketing wise this is brilliant. People who hate the title will buy the album just to burn it and destroy it. But hey once you buy it, what you do with it is up to you. But this has a much deeper issue going towards the issue of "free speech" either we have it or we do not. You cannot have words that are taboo, off limits, racist, sexist, and still say you are in a free society. Sensitivity is never a replacement for blunt honesty, and free expression. Never. Sure it's an offensive word for the time being, i think this will change the perception of the word in today's and future's context. Yes, you cannot change the origin of the word and what is was bore out of...but you can change and spark a verbal evolution as to it's future context encompassing more than just being a "black word".

I think black folks are too weak on this subject with the word "N*gg*r". Meaning, it's just a word at the end of the day...i've been called N*gg*r in its most offensive form...but i didn't die, didn't have a stroke, didn't lose my mind, didn't lose my job, still here still breathing. It's a word my black people let it go. I served in iraq, afghanistan..all the sh*t i've been through, in two wars..and people acting like a word is what is going to make or break your psyche and sense of self worth in this world is just utter ignorance of reality, and stupid emotional weakness..among black people. Just like "N*gg*r" describes character traits, so to does "Bia'ch" and "hoe. Wanna stop being called "N*gg*r" stop doing N*gg*rish activities. Black people grow the hell up...

Grandma(white): so what do u want for christamas this year johnny? johnny(also white): the new nas album grandma: well whats it called? johnny: well...ummm....ahhh grandma: spit it out! johnny: N*gg*r grandma: what did u say? lol grandma: im loking for the new nas album for my johnny store clerk(black): what is is called? grandma: well.......ummmm.....ahhhhh store clerk: spit it out! grandma: N*gg*r store clerk: omg u raceist lol c'mon how can u name an album N*gg*r when that study was done on 70% of people who liste to rap are white??

Grandma(white): so what do u want for christamas this year johnny?--- johnny(also white): the new nas album--- grandma: well whats it called?--- johnny: well...ummm....ahhh--- grandma: spit it out!--- johnny: n*gg*r--- grandma: what did u say?--- later that day--- grandma: im loking for the new nas album for my johnny--- store clerk(black): what is is called?--- grandma: well.......ummmm.....ahhhhh--- store clerk: spit it out!--- grandma: n*gg*r--- store clerk: omg u raceist--- lol c'mon how can u name an album n*gg*r when that study was done on 70% of people who liste to rap are white??

This album name is setting us back 50 yrs.

This is just some cheap marketing trick dreamed up by la reid. Look its got everyone talking about the album already. ..its just like the so-called 50cent vs kanye west. Def jams dying: ever since russells simmons its all turned corporate. Dma, method man, ll cool j - they're all jumping ship. All thats going to be left is rhianna and ugly monkey looking neyo.... R.i.p. Def jam

I don´t care ´bout the title, there´s definitelly some sort of meaning on it, but i´m worried ´bout the production team...anyway the 4th quarter seems promising since we´ve got jigga, wu-tang, ghost, saigon and nas...

Do your thing nas! n*gger/n*gga has its place in our world, and it's not going anywhere! and it had a place in whitey's world, we can still use it and they can't, that's just it! i don't care how many whites buy it, when they go in the store, they have to say "give me that new joint n-word by nas!"

First all, respect to all the brothers and sisters, nas, jesse, naacp, etc. We all have to work together. Period. Now, the word N*gg*r is no doubt a powerful word. One that stirs up hate, racism, bigotry, and many other negative things. It has also been used in an attempt ( and dare i say it) to be used in a manner to bring black people together. Personally, i don't use it. Too many of my ancestors were called that right before they were hung, beaten, hosed down, or shot to death! remember this brothers and sisters, malcolm x never called his brothers N*gg*rs! farrakhan, also one of the most powerful brothers alive, never uses that word either! what would be the problem with just using the word "brother"? the excuse of taking power from the word to me is a lame excuse. I have to agree with jesse on this one, and i am not his biggest fan. Some issues are meant to be kept "in house". Peace.

Alot of people dont understand wehre da god is coming from but tru nas fans understand exactly where its going, as we did w/ pacs strictly for my n*ggas, and the grea n*ggas with attitude......support nas and lets see whatthe great one ahs to say.....i also did a new version to lifes a Bia'ch check it out @ /donniecooke1

Hey hey slow down man...i still havent done studyin the bible(illmatic)!!!!!!!!!! nas=god of hip hop.bless me lord nas!!!!

I love all y'all N*gg*rs! cuz y'all N*gg*rs kept it real on this page! i mean, how can one of the greatest rappers alive top his last album...N*gg*r please...

Nas, nas what have you done. Of cause you want to sell albums but not in this stupid way. You have made the worst move in your career. You will only get respect from those black people who are lost and think using the word is taking out the negative element of it and the one's who think that word some how means something else when a black person use's it. White people will be laughing at us even mor when they know that one of our geats has been hood winked in to useing the word.

Nigga at least name yo cd "n*gga" not "n*gg*r"!!

Who really cares...as long as people pay his bullshi! some attention. Attention draws $$$.... U b the jude . He should jump off the rapship anyway he cant rap. Plus i thought he was retired.

I liked the way wise intellegent of the poor rightious teachers handled this: he went straight to the preachers and told them, "look, you may not agree with me, and i may not agree with you, but there's one thing we both agree on--we don't need any of these media people involved. They never cared about us or our problems and just want to see us fight in front of the cameras." al & jesse could've went straight to nas and talked to him about it. They didn't. They went straight to the bill o'reilly's and sean hannity's and any of the other conservative talk show hosts to sh*t on hip-hop artists. In other words, al & jesse have both become exactly what they preached against for decades--house n*ggas.

Couple of years back there was a group named clawfinger that put out a track named n.i.g.g.e.r. And the word was used multiple times in the chorus of the song. I didn't hear anybody start up sh*t then!??

So wat its gunna b good n e way

Yeah i think its a good for nas to come out with another album that is going to piss people off with the name of it because people from all over the us gave him sh*t about hip hop is dead that sh*t got him platinum and i know this is going to go 2xplatinum we got a month and some change until this album come out and we will see the out come. I know i'm going to buy it anyway i dont care if it was called klu klux klan i will buy because i know how nasier jones get down. Nigger is just a word that we use everyday if your from the hood you know what it means to you and how it effects you its the other black people that take it the wrong way and want to make it an issue but it will put money in the bank for nas. Tell them to ask jay z about how he feel about it i bet you he want say sh*t because he knows the outcome of this with the counteversy it will bring and your right free promo all day

I can't wait for this nas album to drop the king of q.b. Is back. The king of new york comes back nov. 6 american gangsta

All i want to say if is you get offended by the word N*gg*r then you must think you are one. Nas can name his album whatever he wants

Nas is my dude, but...ur fukn buggn. Lol he on his righteous too hard. Great lyricist and activist but damn. Lmao! kelis must have that ill box! lmao!

Nigger/n*gga or whatever way you type it..it means black in latin...or some ish like dat...in the book capitalist n*gga...ther eis a qoute...'it is not what you call me, but what i respond to that matter"....well sumin like dat...

I cant believe reading somepeople who r saying that his album name is being used to sell records.those true hip hop fans will know that nas doesnt give a sh*t about how much he sells and they will know that nas has a deeper of the word N*gg*r

This is the worst state in hip hop. It's sad nas the best rapper probably ever has to lower himself and hip hop by degrading his album title to the word "N*gg*r" , i think nas need to go back to school and get a education b/c somewhere down the line you have to realize that word got some history to it and it's extremely negative. Why even talk about it, there's no reason, it's not like nas is going to convnce the world that this word means nothing now, that n*gga nas is just trying to sell records, he knows his material is weak now ( subject matter ) as is everybody else in rap. Hip hop sucks, rap sucks, there is no more power in it, all these wack club songs and fake gangsta songs, these rappers don't live that life so why promote it. Hip hop is hilarious and nas is taking hip hop down with him along with a big scar on his own race, black people, i feel for ya , you guys got it the worst and still get it the worst to this very day. If i was black i'd protest this album and not support it. F*ck nas we need a new breed in hip hop with real intellects that speak some real sh*t, hip hop was universal now it's just about $ , cars and Bia'ches. My n*gga common was right , i use to love her, that's real sh*t.

I think its funny how this F*ck*n gov talks about freedom but we dont have the freedom to say what ever the F*ck we want to say bullsh*t.

Damn.... Anything nas do latley has been serious discussion... But anyway (my 2cent) the only thing i dont like is the title has nothing to do with the album. He wants to use the title just to do it. If he was going to label the last album that and now he switched it to the next no prob. He just making music and comming up with crazy ass titles to make em sell. Dats pointless to me. If the concept of the album related to using that title then cool. He probably go back and make one song to match the title and call it a day... Lol

Seem like pimp jesse and pimp perm al, care about how we african americans treat ourself.....i bet back then they both was saying the things we say now...but in different lingo........ Someone need to did what david banner said at the end of his song to the both of them lol...oh well we came here as a N*gg*r turned to a n*gga trying to be liberated from the term...but we aint never going to be free from it cuz live, think and breathe as a n*gga

F*ck em. You kno dude has something behind it...he aint jus gonna call it "N*gg*r" for no reason...F*ckouttahere with that

I wish ya'll just leave the god alone.

C'mon everybody... It's nas. If you listened and understood "it was written", you shouldn't doubt him. Only true fans fall back and gain wisdom in his words, the others listen to dance.

...they called my grandpa a nigg8r ... Just before making sure the knot around his neck was tight enough...

Man- nas is capable of naming his own album and flip it any direction. Nas is a poet- now- poets say what they want and do it or they ain't really poets. And he is right about the fox news sh*t.

Yo man!!! home boy has as much right to call his album what he wants as the next man. For these clowns to assume just because he's a rapper he's clearly going to say something negitive or stupid plays up to the mis conception that hip hop is de- grading and rappers are uneducated thugs who can only spit about sex, drugs and violence. Stuff it !! jesse and the crew shud just sod off!!

Its actually a smart move...some fag named hovito blogged it wuz the dumbest move nas ever made...another ass speaking b4 he really understands...this is gonna b 1 of da realest albums eva made...let these fools know nas!!!

I am a white guy.....from the uk......loved hiphop ever since dmc dropped sucka mc's - 808 beats - an all of that! i never heard so much sh*t as this.......public enemy took the stand and pointed out the racism and the event of black power b'cus hell if my (so called) race was being persecuted for colour i would take the same stand.......its typical to hear people making money spin of controversy but damn its getting old now.......the way i see it now is if you aint beefing on records, aint talking bout bling and designer labels with benz & beemers to boot then hiphop has no where to go...back in the early days rappers were saying stop calling us the 'n' word and you vibed off that but now its totally flipped.....b4 you people start slating me for being some punk its probably white america that buys your records/cd's in the first place and i for one have stopped playing it cus i aint black.......universal music is universal regardless of creed and colour so there is no wonder why (universally) people are slating todays rap / hiphop / urban (whatever) scene!

+ there are streets everywhere you go and people do their own thing and when i said i aint playing it cus im not black i meant to say i aint playing rap records anymore with the 'n' word cus it is wrong because earlier rap records depicted it to be so - so dont get me twisted

I respect nas, i think he is one of the greatest rappers of all time, but i don't agree with the new album titled"ni**er. I understand nas was trying to make a point with hip hop is dead, so other rappers can step their lyrical game up. Nas istrying the word n-word to make a good purpose, but i feel he should have never used the word. Instead of jesse jackson, and other black people dissing nas, we should work with nas to help our black communties become more educated.

I really want to hear nas on what he has to say. I just have to say that the word is a white word used to hurt blacks.

Hey hey y da hell is everyone makin such a big deal outta dis man... Nas is da best rapper alive, he wouldnt do sumthin stupid... Yea i was a bit shocked wen i heard it waz gonna b called ni**er, but wen i thought about it....it cant be nuttin bad, all dem black ppl be callin eachotha n*ggerz so realli itz dem showin everyone that itz ok.... 4 da rapperz itz become a normal everydai thing so.... Letz first wait hear wot da man nas has 2 say den b talkin sh*t

Do not doubt nas, he is the greatest lyricist ever 2pac named his album and had a song called strictly for my n.i.g.g.a.z n.w.a is short for n*ggaz with attitude i know that hes using the full word instead of the slang word, but as everyone has been saying, hes an artist he can voice his own opinion and he expects to has critics, they will only galvonize him to drop some classic sh*t last word - i find it funny that they only * out the i in the word N*gg*r

Nas iizz da greatest!! ya'll n*ggaz don't kno sh*t about hip hop u wanna learn? get errone of nas's albums u want street knowledge? get t.i. Or chamillionaire sh*t man. Ya'll n*ggaz need to study hip hop and do your homework before u try to come on here dictatin n*ggaz. Dis n*gga from da wood. Nigga minnesota n*gga. Holla back. Jonez boy told ya'll. Wait till my album come out mane tha dominoe effect cuz just wait class iizz in session n*ggaz be preoared.... Bitch da real iizz

He can call his record whatever he F*ck*ng wants to- its not like your average fox loving C*nt is going to buy it anyway.

Really nas is one of the best mcs still around. For me its really about publicity. Nas is thinkin how do i make this stand out. Just like hip hop is dead, its not so important that you buy it (you should), but that you would discuss it. Thats whats important to nas and im feeling that.

Rap is an affront to civilization. It promotes abuse of women, drug use, self-loathing (calling yourself a N*gg*r) and other satanic actions. Black people who listen to rap need jesus christ.

You know nas has a reason. He's going to at least partially redeem himself through the actual material on the album, because he's got it like that. Nas is on the level, and he wouldn't do something this drastic without knowing that his mouth is writing checks that his ass can cash.

Nas just let your hits do all the talking like you have in the past. Your conscience rap has been a blessing to us in the hood for a decade strong. We support you in lex,ky. Peace and blessings.

I luv u nas. Keep doing your thing. Am down with u till d end.cheers.