“I celebrated having another #1 album in the country,” he told MTV of his last LP, Hip Hop Is Dead.
“I was on the Virgin Islands on New Year’s Day, I got the news I had another #1 album. I think I made some heads turn. I did my thing: no radio. Not much radio spins. Now I wanna have fun with the radio. I’ll still try to reach for a higher ground and come sometime in December.
“I’m really into [the idea of having] a summer album,” he continued. “But they say the fourth quarter is for big dogs. I been doing the fourth quarter for years, so I guess I’m at home in the fourth.”
Nas, who released a mixtape earlier this year with Black Eyed Peas’ Will.I.Am, expects to release some of the new material as early as next month.
He also hasn’t ruled out the possibility of working with the legendary Dj Premiere.
“I can’t reveal it yet,” he said. “But if you remember, the original name for Hip Hop Is Dead was Nigga. It was ahead of its time. [When the news leaked,] Def Jam immediately went out there and said I was being facetious. But that was the name of my album.
I don’t be out there with everybody. But I want them to know I’m heavily involved. That’s why I do the titles I do. Hip Hop Is Dead was a great substitute. It was perfect timing for that joint.”
Though Hip Hop Is Dead became the number 1 record in the country without much promotion [aside from the controversy], Nas plans to go all out this time around and was disappointed with the lack of interest in the video(s) created for the singles.
“Yeah, man, I like to just put it out there that we shot a video for ‘Hustlers,’ ” Nas explained. “These guys still got the video, actually. The guy who shot the video, [R.] Malcolm Jones, is a different type of cat, man. I don’t know what’s going on with it, but they took too long. They been needing time. Then Spike Lee was set to [direct] ‘Black Republican,’ but me and Spike couldn’t come up with the perfect idea, so we let it ride as one of them tracks that was just there. [Hip Hop Is Dead] to me was gonna be shot like Thriller. But sometimes I feel like I don’t wanna do that. I don’t wanna hog up the radio waves, hog up the video waves. I let everybody else eat, ‘cause I’m eating. Been eating for so many years. I ain’t hogging it up. That’s basically it.”
“I gotta hog it up,[this time]” he told MTV. “People think [the videos] didn’t happen ‘cause it couldn’t happen, and that’s fucked up ‘cause I leave a lot of my listeners out there and they be fighting for me. I don’t wanna feel like I’m leaving them out there. Just ‘cause I’m in the cut, I don’t want them to feel like I don’t give a fuck. Everybody else is doing as many videos as they want to. When it came to me, I was cool with it. I have a lot of real niggas out here that’s behind me and fuck with me. I’m so in love with them real niggas, I don’t see nobody else. But I need to push my shit. It’s important. It’s the norm.”
COMMENTS
Nigga hip hop aint dead just his shit
lol this nigga
kill yo self chino
he's making more radio shit and dumbing it down for wankstas like you. so kneel and kiss the muthafuckin' ring
thats d double e p
^^^^ True
lol i'll first to that!
wow that was gay! who came up with this first shit, i don't feel any better about myself. lol
HOMO ASS NIGGA
with pac and big and eazy e and ODB all theese niggaz dead hiphop is gone we only got 50cent now that only care about how much money he got fuckin snitch GGG-unot Blackwall street The game anyone wanna flame on me or hate keep em comin bitch this is the facts
Why does 50 name always get bought up..what do u think bout 50 all the time? damn man
Whut!!! all ya'll must be out your mind man!!! nas is,and will allways be a legend.HIPHOP IS DEAD!!!!!!!! It won't be revived unless we stop putting out so much crap.Let artists like rakim,kool g rap,guru,kam,keith murruy get that radio spins,vid spins.I ONLY LISTEN TO OLD SCHOOL RAP/HIPHOP. Nas was on point as allways!!! can't wait to hear his next installment.
I dont get it... You guys are the problem... Your not ready to accept hip hop for what it is... You think Hip Hop is only that one era of time... You cant keep listenin to the same old shit forever, and You cant expect these old heads to keep making music because if they do it just wont be the same and it will ruin their legacies... I know alot of the stuff that comes out now days is garbage... thx to Atlanta... but its just fact that hip hop is changing and its only dead to those of you who can't get with it....
cosign scrill ^
They will NEVER understand, their stuck back in the days. And the sad part about it is they act like they're old..LOL
Keith Murray? What? YALL DIDN'T SUPPORT HIS ALBUM! 12,000 first week smh. It's funny how they rep this Artist but no one supports their Albums THEN they blame the current state of Hip Hop. Losers!
SUPERCANE COSIGN
agree wit the first, nas is dried up. this nigga is trippin, he aint lettin anybody eat, they are eating in front of him and he can't do nothing about it. there will never be another illmatic, at least not from nas haha.
How he dried up when he dropped a Gold classic less than a year ago? EXPLAIN.
go listen to nelly and chingy
Nas is that nigga best mc alive
man i hope nas drops at the end of the year. smarten up nas,promote ya shit to get ya shit heard, YA HEARD! but yo most intellectuals only half listen, meaning, those that only want the money drop constant hits pleasing alcohilics in the club, and those helping hip hop drop classics
How you Niggas disrespect a "LEGEND" like NAS, you all should be slapped. You guys must like that bubble gum rap out now. (snap your fingers faggots)!
haha Drew O.G I feel you my Nigga C0-Sign
Double cosign that shit. Ni99as make these snap songs and get signed and then end up broker than they were to begin with. The CDs that are printed up fall right back on to the artist when they're shit doesn't sell. So Soulja Boy will be approximately $999,999,999,999.57 in debt cuz everybody knows he'll only sell 5 CDs to the extremely mentally retarded. Even then they'll buy it because they'll think it was a DVD about slave soldiers in the Civil War.
Can't wait for this shit.. hopefully another classic album from God Son
"I have a lot of real niggas out here that’s behind me and fuck with me. I’m so in love with them real niggas, I don’t see nobody else."
Comment of the day! I'll always have Nas' back... He's been doin' the damn thing since I was a teenager... He KILLED Hip-Hop Is Dead and proved he still had it... Now, he's goin' all out with this next joint! I can't wait!
ya i grew up to his music as a teenager too. i'll always be a loyal fan even if he puts out some wack shit sometime. niggas don't realize that if it wasn't for cats like him hip hop woudn't be what it is today.
the great rapper 4eva since long time ago.....NAS
first good comment u left hoodstock, co sign
Nas needs 2 shut da fuck up saying hiphop is dead is homeboy 50 and Kanye got hiphop going with this battle they about 2 get no diss tracks or street beef just record sells no one is talking about his ass thats why hiphop is dead self rightous jackass
haha.. he's the one that started the hip hop is dead movement..it didn't have credibility until Nas said it.
Who cares he still GOLD....smh at you fools
Nas droppin in the 4th quarter?! That's what's up, he gonna teach these niggas how to be a real MC.
dont get it... You guys are the problem... Your not ready to accept hip hop for what it is... You think Hip Hop is only that one era of time... You cant keep listenin to the same old shit forever, and You cant expect these old heads to keep making music because if they do it just wont be the same and it will ruin their legacies... I know alot of the stuff that comes out now days is garbage... thx to Atlanta... but its just fact that hip hop is changing and its only dead to those of you who can't get with it....
man you can't blame the game dying on Atlanta. A lot of shitty music is coming from all different areas. The other side of the coin is that without Atlanta we wouldn't have the greatest hip hop group of all time. It doesn't matter to me if Nas drops now or next year, all I gotta say is the sooner the better because hip hop is dead was a classic.
I'll ASSume that you're referring to Outkast... They're better than the Wu-Tang Clan? The Fugees? The Firm?
they're better than n.w.a too?
c'mon Nas released the "hustlers" vid...dat song was 1 of the best songs ever
HIP HOP WAS NEVER DEAD HE JUST WANTS YOU TO BUY HIS ALBUM ...EVERY ARTIST SAYS SOME SLICK WORDS LIKE OH **IM GONNA RETIRE IF THIS ALBUM DOSENT REACH MY STANDARDS** THATS SOME BULLSHIT / I GOT A QUESTION FOR NAS IF HIP HOP IS DEAD THEN YOU DEAD TO NIGGA CAUSE YOU PART OF HIP HOP AND ITS MOVEMENT WATEVER FORM IT IS I DONT CARE IF ITS FROM ATLANTA ITS STILL HIP HOP ...SO WHEN U TALK ABOUT HIP HOP YOU SHITTIN ON YO SELF
your taking the whole "hip hop is dead" too literally and not understanding the message behind it
i cant wait for the album we slowly getting back to real music
Greatest of all time side by side with pac
and biggie
man, hip hop aint the same thang it was, but it aint dead
Some of that shit they have on the radio is not Hip Hop. Do you guys even know what is Hip Hop. That shit is RAP. Stupid learn the difference. Hip Hop is a culture, street music not club music. That is when it becomes cross over. If you live it then it is Hip Hop if you dance to it it is called rap . No finger snap straight lyrics. Little info listen to Joell Ortiz, Common, Talib Kwelli, Nas, Old Jay-Z, Old Mobb Deep, M.O.P, etc. This stuff on the radio is GARBAGE!
yo nas is hip hop but i was reading the comments and i wanna know where 50,s name came from you yelling g-unot and shit 50 anit a snitch that dum ass nigga got caught ja droped the rumor and now 50"s a snitch leave the 50 hate to 50 cent articles dum nigga
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Nas is Legendary, I agree. But NAS has some of the most Bitch Ass Fans that just TALK ALOT!
HHID is still GOLD but EVERYBODY praises Nas! That means he's NOT Really getting support. So STOP with that "Classic" shit, because nobody's playing HHID right now.
Matter of Fact, He just said he wants the Radio Now! So he knows his suppose to be Fans Don't Support His Shit. He's looking For New Support.
I bought FOUR copies of HHID 1st week... True fan playboy.... It's Gold.. so what? That's like, 3x platinum these days....
if nas got shot like biggie and pac during that time then he would have died at their level. he hasn't been the most consistent rapper but his greatest music is in the muthafuckin' hip hop hall of fame. there are better enertainers and performers in the rap game definately, but i can't think of too many rappers that can fuck with him lyrically.
that nigga is gonna come out hard. you could tell with defjam promotions it's over.
With JayZ's vision and Nas wordplay the album is an installment to bring REAL HIP HOP back from the grave. You know Jay gotta lay down a hot verse or two. Real MC wars not no "I got an AK that will spray away and turn your face in to a paper plate" type shit. Just know that were back bitches.
my nigga NAS is gettin ready 2 make som MC'z look stupid, i kno this new album is gona be a fuckin classic as usual from the GOD SON
NAS IS THE REASON HIP HOP IS DEAD!!
yes and no cause nas will make good lyrics then criticize people rapping about dumb shit then he puts some dumb fucking trakcs out that are the same thing he's criticizing
how the fuck is nas the reason hip hop is dead?
ur obviously someone who has no idea wut ur talkin about
holy fuck...thats like saying michael jordan fucked up the game of basketball
you probably couldnt even tell me what one verse means in the track "hip hop is dead". he is obviously to intelligent for your simple mind.
NAS IS THE BEST!...period...Nas needs to keep puttin out rekords kuz if yall dont think hip hop is dead, lissen to SOULJA BOI,Yung Joc,Gorilla Zoe, Hurricane Chris!...that shit is NON SENSE!...ne body kan rap now days...Nas is a living legend...
nas da last of the real living legends n rap..
see i hate how niggahz say hip hop is dead......WHY IT GOT TO BE DEAD..... YOU STILL got talented emcees in the world....and im one of them.........and im pretty sure theres a lot more out there....you cant say everything is fucked up because of some bad seeds in the game....TRust me everything is going to change 4 the good in a minute it just takes time......360
as long as the south keep pumping this bullshit through the radio waves its pretty much dead. its not just the south but they responsable for 90% of it. i remember a time when the south put out nothing but classics. goodie mob, outkast, ugk, scarface. now we got soulja boy, hurricain chris, shop boys,......come on now.
Nas defintely a sic an dintelligent rapper but he contradicts himself way to much, how can you say hip hop is dead, and criticize soft ass radio shit and then turn around and say i aiming for that radio music, hes going against everything he's been saying, why he gotta go to the radio if everyone respects him for not doin that shit. Nas needs to get his head staright and stop worrying bout the fuckin money and jus make that CLASSIC SHIT!
lol at the first nigga
Nas 's is playing everybody like fifty, this nigga aint stupid, of course he's going to cause controversy with a title like Hip Hop is Dead, it's like Fifty hyping this Kanye shit, calling Wayne a whore, it saves them promotional and marketing dollars, Hip Hop was never dead, just look at this year, Kayne's Graduation, Fifty Cent's Curtis, Talib Kweli Eardrum (so far album of the year), T.I vs T.I.P, Ugk Underground Kings, Chamillionare Ultimate Victory, for the wayne heads, The Carter 3, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, Common Finding Forever, c'mon man niggas have to stop living in the past and realized that this is the music we listen to, everybody is like Nas this and Nas that Nas is in the same boat as Jay Z, last album Hip hop is dead was gold, stop saying shit like Hip Hop is Dead is the fans that are there, music is always going to be music last time i checked hip hop was not about a certain subject but due to the rhythm it had, a movement, rapping(emceeing) a form a freedom of speech so if niggas from the south wanna snap their fingers let them, ur not forced to listen to that shit.
so u niggs mean to tell me that when nas " hip hop is dead" album came out he revitalized the game, c'mon, stop being ignorant cause before he mentioned those fucking words about 80% of u mutahfuccas did not even realize it was dead, bandwagons hoes, to me hip hop has been running strong for 30 plus years and i grant it another 100
how can nas say hip hop is dead and come up wit an album, the fuck is that
that why pac said chino xl fuck you to. nas is the greatest. i hope he hogs all the fuckin airwaves
Fuck the bullshit. Nas is dat nigga and I say hip hop is dead. Not becase jeezy can rap nonstop abou coke, weezy can spit nonstop about nothing, and 50 can spit nonstop bullet wounds. But because muhfuckas just care about they marketing and image. You dont get classic albums no more. Just classic mixtapes. Half dees new niggas is wet pussy any way.
Nas is the living legend that only makes 1 or 2 times platinum.........come on man,that don't mean hip hop is dead,just means the new fans are dumb fucks.
Illmatic
Stillmatic
Gods son
It was written
Nastradamus
I think they all classics.........but i'm a big nas fan so maybe i think all his shit is classic.Nas the most consistent and one of the greatest ever to hold the mic.
even firm biz, the lost tapes
streets disciple
u spelled Premier name wrong Jokesta...u stay fuckin up! lol
anyway...i hope he drop around the day Wayne do to show that dude what it means to be a REAL legend! real talk!
I will def. get Nas' album. He is one of the few artist left that actually talk about shit in his lyrics. While other niggas(lil wayne) be puttin words together just to match but dont talk bout shit..
Co-sign Bobby digital05. I like Wu-Tang, Fugees, NWA. RUN-DMC. But Dang Outkast better than all of them. REASON BEING: Every album they dropped besides "Idlewild" was a CLASSIC. Idlewild was a good CD too, but name another RAP GROUP who dropped in 94' with NAS, BIGGIE, Pac, Wu-Tang, Tribe Called Quest, lasted 13 years, every album was totally different than the one before, and still came out with a classic album. 36 chambers is classic, but people don't have "The W" "Black Flag" and some don't give "WU Tang Forever" Classic status. Outkast has dropped 6 albums, and 5 out of 6 are definite classics. Proof is in the pudding. Plus they've competed with Jay-z, having the same release date TWICE. Still got respect. Respect the best maan... I know alot of people are gonna disagree with me, probably because these dudes are from the south, but the truth is hard to swallow.
...watch what u say about atl hip hop. most of the garbage that has been coming out lately that is CERTIFIED garbage has been coming out of NYC! so get your facts straight!
Redman's album was garbage? Red Gone Wild? -- Well, he not from NY but he's from the Tri-State area.
Keith Murray's album was garbage? Rap-Murr-Phobia?
Nas' album was garbage? Hip-Hop Is Dead?
AZ's album was garbage? The Format?
Talib Kweli's album was garbage? Ear Drum?
All of these albums have dropped within the last 365-day period. All FIRE!
..watch what u say about atl hip hop. most of the garbage that has been coming out lately that is CERTIFIED garbage has been coming out of NYC! so get your facts straight!
you must not have read what he said dumbass
Spoken like the fucking G he is!!!! i wouldve loved to see a video for "hustlers" wit game....shit wouldve been hard....
im talking about an earlier statement, asswipe...and as far as that list charismatic gave only 2 of them shits was fire! hip hop is dead is not really that great of an album, but i will give nas credit for the message he was trying to get across with it. keith murray's album was a straight disappointment as was AZ's. Red and Talib Kweli were the only two holding it down. Not to mention i find Kweli to be a REAL M.C. Nas fell off a while back. He need to get back in the game cause niggas like Talib, Common, and Mos Def is killin him in the M.C. department.
CHAMILLIONAIRE IS THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE PERIOD!...HES BETTER THAN NAS, JAY-Z, BIGGIE, PAC ANYBODY!...HEAR HIS MIXTAPE AND NEW ALBUM AND PROVE ME WRONG..HE DONT EVEN CUSS IN SOME OF HIS SONGS AND HE STILL MURDERS IT...SO FUCK YALL SAYIN THE SOUTH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIP HOP BEING DEAD CUZ MR. THIS IS WHY IM HOT IS FROM NY AND DAT TRACK WAS AS PITIFUL AS ANY OTHER TRACK
this nigga is on crack for real! CHAMILLIONAIRE? WHAT THE FUCK!
FUCK YOU DREDAY!..LISTEN TO CHAMS MIXTAPE MESSIAH 3..DOWNLOAD IT ON CHAMILLIONAIRE.COM AND GET BACK AT ME AIGHT!
^^^^this beanr is gay u shuld change that LA to str8 dodger blue and go bak to argentina r watevr place u love so much fake ass motherfucker
ARGENTINA??..MAN U IS ONE DUMB ASS MOTHERFUCKER!..GO COMMIT SUICIDE YOU FUCKIN HOMO!