[Update] Nas Further Explains Controversial LP

Hurrah!!!! this album is sounding like it will be solid from where nas has his heart at

Nas need to get paul mooney on a skit. Dave chappelle too.

I fear no black mans tip!!! and nas needs to stop writin about n*ggas cause he a n*gga himself!!!!!!!

Nas iz alwayz doin' suntin' diff'rent. Soundz lyke this album'z gonna b anutha klassik unda hiz belt. It'll also open tha publix i'z 2 whas really goin' on n 2day'z society. What do u xpekt?, afterall, he iz 1 o' thee gr8es' mcz 2 bless a myke. Keep ^ tha gr8 werk nas.

........the interview wasn't extensive or detailed enough for me to make any real accessments... I mean the issues he touch on are well known by most people anyway.... It still feels like a publicity stunt, one that he's trying to justify by playing on people's intelligence. Playing on our intelligence by making some of us believe we need to be educated on something we already know......

This is the some dude who recorded a song telling a story backwards, crazy. Same thing with rapping from the gun's perspective. This dude is gon kill it, regardless of you haters. Hating on an album that aint even dropped yet, ha

That album is gonna set the sh*t striaght about who the illest between jigga and nas.. "and yo man stabbed un and made you take the blame.."

That album is gonna set the sh*t striaght about who the illest between jigga and nas.. "and yo man stabbed un and made you take the blame.."

.....nas is over his head, this topic would have been served up best by mos def or krs1, someone with actual knowledge of self..... Even jay would do better because keeping it real is something jay always done....

Im not so sure that im feeling this right now i mean i thought he was gonna make some real strong statement about the album. I love nas's music but his last two cd have been just aight and im starting to fear for this one. And what happened to the cd that was just gonna be him and primo

Time will tell... Sometimes it's not just what you say but how you say it. There are artists that can confront these same real issues in a way that all can hear it, not just those who aren't detracted by a parental advisory sticker...

Nas is real and i guzzel cum you white and need to watch ya mouth F*ck*ng cracker

Im feeling evenwhenilie. Mos def, lupe, talib etc would keep the message more concentrated and pure. Dont get me wrong - nas is a rappers rapper. But the nas of illmatic and it was wriiten would be able to deliver a message about racism with the struggle that the everyday negro faces. The nas with the shoe deal, the famous wife and boss (la reid) in his tailored suits making sue the materials commercial enough to make a profit - that nas wont be able to relate to the street n1gga do matter how hard he tries - cos hes no longer struggling

He looks like u-god in that picture....but the album seems like its gonna be real good

Honestly, i havent been this excited about rap in a long time. I havent bought two cds this year. I can't wait for this album to drop. It sounds like something the people want to hear and need hear. I can't wait.

I fail to understand why anyone would think that jay-z would do a better job at consrtucting an album about this topic or anything serious in life for that matter. Jay-z has skills, and is able to touch topics like hustling drugs, money, hoes & clothes and even drop some true street jewels but i haven't heard anything to convince me that he would be able to touch on social/real life issues and be taken seriously. Nas will be able to handle himself with these issues if he doesn't try to make a commercial album and decides to drop this one for the listener. Jay-z jacked many of biggies lines, but always the ones that were flashyand spoke about the limelight, never anything that was brutally honest like "born sinner, the opposite of a winner - remember when i used to eat sardines for dinner"!

^^^^^ as real as it gets.

Nas aint struggle'n nomore but financial rise invites a whole new realm of racisim.anyone who made it up out the hood and worked hard like he did and purchased that new house where the shootings and hustle'n(in open view)no longer exists knows about the jealousy and envy of that old jewish dude or that black doctor from sudan that went through 10 years of schooling and feels like rappin aint work and talks sh!t everyday so when you smack the sh!t outta him he'll sue you and press charges. Man the average n*gga can not deal with a girlfriend let alone a wife that makes the same if not more dough than him,most cats use that money as a tool against women.these are the things i hope nas disscusses on "N*gg*r" sh!t kelis coulda had any athlete,musician,actor and had one that aint have no seeds! i hope nas disscusses real life topics and issues on "N*gg*r" its a lot more goin on than just "poppin bottles" and "the club" and whips and designer clothing. Talk about "child support reform",we need that cause chicks is cake'n off,address childcare and health coverage.rappers tour the world year round without healthcare.i bet you n*ggaz forgot about when ghostface went to africa on tour and got malaria f*ckin around wit def jam!

^^^word life, what kinda n*gga would not want to give 9 million uninsured kids in the usa healthcare...oh..that n*gga bush. Wu-tang for the children-bong! oops...nas for the children!

Good to hear we all nigg@z too, but nas need to get some good beats to match his lyrics on his nxt album, get dr.dre, get timbaland on that sh!t and its game over 4 the rest of the charts

......believe it or not most people who are deeply rooted in the struggle are really the best people to tell the black experiece, or any experience for that matter...... Think of iceburg slim who jay patternize his concepts & angles he chooses to relate his messages..... Slim successfully tied the pimp game into the american frabric..... And in doing so, explained things from a prespective that brought the reader closer to the actual thing itself...... Its best that the author is inoculated with much of the dis-ease that brought us to the place/state we find ourselves in today...... Jay has proved time & time again that he's able to shead much light on such issues because of the vary inoculations i spoke of..... This is why i said jay is more suited for this believe it or not, but i do think krs1 or mos def would be a much better chose than nas or jay.....

Yea nas is so idealistic. He taught more hit than anybody on this planet. In 94 is when i first heard illmatic and i have been hooked every since then. I was a child at the tender age of 7. This album is somthing im really really lookin forward to. This is somthing i can seek my elevation through my mind on ya dig peeps. Peep game for the brain of a all-star

Evenwhenilie...the problem with jay telling the story lies in the fact that he patternized himself and his image after people who really lived these things. His own people have come out to say that he was never a big drug dealer, yet he raps about flipping keys, big pimping etc...no problem with me for entertainment sake, but he has never given me the impression that he is nothing more than an image and good story teller by telling other peoples stories. Nas has done some of the same as well, but once in while he is willing to expose his reality. Last real n*gga alive - "the crack epidemic had rap representin new rules so i, got in em shoes, tried em wore them wasn't a perfect fit, so i couldn't sport em" & he has made songs before that addressed social ills ie. "my country" and a joint for the kids " i can". Jay saw an opportunity and ran with it...biggie was the one that really took flossing to the next level in hip-hop...but even he exposed that it wasn't all-good with quotes like" more money more problems". Jay-z is just too inoculated for my taste. And if nas wants commercial success with this album and fails to reach the streets he will fall on his face as well. Nobodysmiling cuz sh!ts serious!!!-bong-

Its about time these topics were addressed, n nas iz goin no holds bar, he aint tryna sugar coat nothin, n dats y ppl gettin @ mad him, F*ck ya'll haters, keep doin ya thang nasty nas

Nas and soulja boy till i die, f*ck ya'll haters

lil Bia'ch was suppose to drop on the 11th of dec. But, he knew 50 and g-unit is dropping that gangsta sh*t a week later and his bird ass cant compete. Ggggggggggg-unit!!

My man nas sensei i the man really. U never flexed or filled nobody head with that bulllsh*t. I can say i wouldnt even be on this site right now if u hadn't kicked knowlegde to a cal like me from alabama with no cable television or friends for miles. Sure we have crackhead like rats in new york and i am from ga to a big city but i wouldnt be the same fresh without that. So i thank him for that. When he signed to def-jam i was scared for him cause pressures bust pipes. Now nas is not the only cat that taught me from music. Music was all i had growing up. I can say he holding it down. Nobody i know round where im at bump him. He let me know it was ok to like nat turner, and let me know that reading was actuallay a good thing cause ignorance is bliss where im from. He let me know its cool for me to want to understand so much of this fickled world. He took me out of alabama and georgia and put me in africa, europe, italy everywhere through my mind and so i got on and really am the man because of one man. It made me feal good to know that people thought like i did and i wasnt just a uncle tom cause i wanted to learn. I got a serious musical gift also im putting my sh*t out now. I got ya back homie. I hope he read this sh*t i wanna sigh to nas & ill will records nas. My number is 706-63-6088 hit me up.

^^^^^706-653-6088 lol my bad im still the man my name is fresh for god sakes.

Sorry for the type-o's i type to fast for my hands

In the eyes of people who don't like or respect the hip hop culture, we are all a bunch of N*gg*rs, nas was right "you're a N*gg*r too" lol.

My n*gga!

....will smith, very good points on your part, i know jay over kills his gangsta persona, and that much of it is but mere hyperbolics..... Meaning an exaggeration for an effect..... No doubt.............. ..............but about those individuals whom saught fit to come out from the shadows, just to discredit a persona that jay no doubt has maticulously worked on for some time now (a time that goes pass his reasonable doubt beginnings), what of their motives.......? why should we believe them? all we do know is, that jay came in the game with close to a mill or more.... Where did he get this money? i believe it was kalvin cline, who after telling jay was a fraud.... Turn around & said if jay was to have paid him some mind after his release, he wouldn't be making the statements of calling jay a fraud...... I think jay maybe exaggerating the truth a little, but people like kalvin are obviously bitter of jay's success and not to be trusted with revealing jay's true story.... So the truth more than likely falls some where in the middle...... And isn't that what you get anyway after you clean all the sh*t away rappers have to do inorder to sale records..........?

Nas is really an idiot man wtf does he mean he is trying to play with peoples intelligence this guy is a fool i used to respect him but he has become a celebrity who knows nothing of what he is fukin sayin why is he callin his album N*gg*r and then saying its a joke! is that what we need a nother joke fuc outta here mr mafia mr teach the kids mr belly killer mr go back to africa now mr dave chappelle wanabe comedian get tha fucc outta ma face

Okay!!he talking some real sh*t...hope it lives up to the hype.alot of "god" info.we'll see....

Wow..

Come on his last 3 albums sucked... When will people admit it? he'll never make another album close to illmatic or it was written... Over the hill... I f*ck with his old stuff though

Yo, nas is a skilled lyricist with an awareness of all them racial as well as social problems of any community that has gone through the same sh*t as the black community. I'll be spendin' my hard-earned money bills on that album come february.

I think the album will be great for all black people. Im sick of the same old sh*t. When the that sh*t is really killng our culture as a people. He is a smart rapper and all the they doing is putting more money in his pocket. Keep yo head up nas!!!!

I'll ask one more time. Where is primo???!!!!

Nas is that dude, but damn i gotta say naming his album n*&@a is a publicity stunt....look we are talking about it now!!! what can he really say about the word that hasn't been said yet!!! but much success and much sales. Just like hip hop is dead sparked contraversy and the free publicity helped boost sales. So marketingwise it's a good move nas!!!!!

08' great year for hip hop again ! detox is gonna be out with some dope beats, N*gg*r is gon be out with some real sense lyrics. Nowadays hip hop is gerring boring with guys like soulja boy, with the south bringing new dances and sh*t to the game. Its time for a real emcee from where it all started to insight us and enlight us up on the world of today. Probaby the best album of 08' so far. ^^ i dont think its a pub. Stunt, a n*gga like nas is today's tupac, he always has something to say about the issues going on today. I cant wait!, if u a real hip hop fan, u should feel the same 2

Yo! nas i'm riding with you all the way! "street disciples" change my life with so much to talk about even that song about your daughter. I love all of your albums, i think some people miss the point because these lames are focus on beats. If you listen to his lyrics it's like reading a best seller book! can't wait for N*gg*r N*gg*r has spoken!

Always bn a nas fan n hes actually my favorite rapper! i know he gon say sum sh*t on dis 1 he always cum thru wit dat creative sh*t! i jus wish him n az came out wit a album 2getha datll b sum sh*t!!!