New York rapper Nas has never shied away from news controversy in his almost two-decade career. Even so, the artist, whose real name is Nasir Jones, has little patience for controversy for the sake of selling albums. “If you’re just faking the funk, if you’re just starting trouble with people just for attention and you got no goal, it’s going to end before it started,” Nas said. “People will catch onto it.”
Nas’ latest untitled album has stirred up plenty of its own trouble. Nas originally called the album N—-r, but left it untitled after criticism around the title. Rev. Jesse Jackson and the NAACP both criticized Nas for the album title, while some artists, including Jay-Z, Alicia Keys and Common, supported it. Nas said he eventually changed the title because he didn’t want the negativity to overwhelm his album’s content. (more…)
New York rapper Nas has joined a protest against FOX News. Citing what he calls “race baiting” and “Obama smears” by FOX, Nas will join ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org to deliver more than 620,000 petition signatures demanding that the network end its “pattern of racist attacks against black Americans,” among them presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
In a statement to media, Nas, ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org announced the petition will be delivered to FOX’s Manhattan offices on July 23 at 2 p.m. ET. In joining the protest, Nas cites FOX’s portrayal of the Obamas as outsiders, as well as an on-screen graphic referring to Michelle Obama as “Obama’s baby mama” and the confusing of Obama and Osama by a pundit, who joked that they should both be assassinated. In February, Bill O’Reilly talked about a “lynching party” to deal with Michelle Obama. (more…)
Street Knowledge / Cheap Thrills Productions was in the house to capture Nas live and in rare form at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC on Dec. 26th. The show, presented by Live Nation, produced a sold-out crowd eager to see their favorite MC Nas - aka God’s Son. (more…)
MTV asked Nas about the Bill O’Reilly thing again, and DAMN! Nas publicly challenged Bill O’Reilly to a debate and called him ignorant! I would love to see a Nas vs. O’Reilly debate. FOX News needs to get on that for real!
Punk ass O’Reilly needs to get off his high horse and realize how ignorant he is, and if anyone can show him, it’s Nasir Jones homie! Peep Nas’ statement below: (more…)
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You can add Nas to the growing list of MCs who have responded to controversial television and radio personality Bill O’Reilly.
During a recent airing of his Fox News show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” the commentator blasted Nas’ free concert for the students of Virginia Tech as an “abomination” and “atrocity.” O’Reilly referred to Nas — or “Nazz,” as the TV host pronounced it — as a “gangsta rapper” and said his lyrics are as “violent as they come,” citing songs such as “Shoot ‘Em Up,” “One Mic,” Ether” and “Made U Look” as his musical history of violence. (more…)
Nas “Hip-Hop Is Dead” Album Review
Alright, alright … enough already fellas. If I have to listen to one more critic use Nas’ “Hip Hop is Dead” as some misguided reason to discuss the apparently failing current state of hip-hop based solely on dropping record sales for Top 40 charts, I’m just gonna start bumping country music or something. “Damn homie - if Nas says it, it gotta be true,” they say. “Yeah dogg - those Billboard sales are way down yo.” “Hip-Hop is dead dude.” Man, Nas is playing you fools by giving you a question that you couldn’t possibly answer. And in the process, he’s making you run around looking like some damn jabberjaws. (more…)
New York rapper Nas has never shied away from news controversy in his almost two-decade career. Even so, the artist, whose real name is Nasir Jones, has little patience for controversy for the sake of selling albums. “If you’re just faking the funk, if you’re just starting trouble with people just for attention and you got no goal, it’s going to end before it started,” Nas said. “People will catch onto it.”
I came across an hour long hip-hop mix that everyone should listen to today!
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