I hope he goes through wit it. history in the making

propz ..hopfully it will be a very good album only nas can pull this off

how the fuck am i gonna buy this album? i'm gonna go to record store and tell the dude "let me get that new nas album, it's called uh....the n word."

i guess nas is tryin to deconstruct the word and strip it of its negative connotations, but i'll still never feel comfortable saying it

No Neeko, he looks like a well educated black man who taught himself, and did not rely on the poor ass school systems that are placed in predominately black communities.

Hopefully it's not a publicity stunt to sell records and I hope it's not for shock value. If it isn't, this should be a great, well-rounded album from one of the God MCs, Nas Escobar.

My bad Neeko, my comment was for ASUConnect. I made a slight error.

YOU SEE!!!
its the white boy that feels uncomfortable saying the word!!!
but i can see wut he's saying if u go to the counter to buy the album and the clerk is black,
"yeah can i get the NIGGER album"

is gon cause mass histeria!!!

Thanks.

haha he beggin for props

Yes because u have listened to the album yet

You wack for sayin that. I hope you're some suburban white kid or jus plain ignorant. I can't even directly reply to such foolishness. i guess Nat Turner is a murderer too....

Real talk. It would of been a fitting cover if Nas was standing by the window wit an AK like Malcolm, but KRS already did that shit.

This cover ain't bad though, it has meaning. He's going for the "intelligent brotha reading" look lol. It's almost like reverse psychology, because back in the day a "nigger" wasn't supposed to know how to read but Nas is clearly reading on the cover.

its just you............. i think hes going 4 'aight now let me tell you a story and why this album is called nigger' type vibe

Im hispanic but in my opinion i dont think white kids go around looking for excuses to say that word

I'm a black man and I don't give a fuck who said it cause a word is powerless unless some one tries to give it power, so if someone says a word that'll make u fight, cry, pout, and fart that just shows me that person has some individual problems on the inside so, I like the fact the nas is doing dis to show people dis ain't shit.

lol, I was just talking to me friend, what would happen if a white guy hated the album.

"I hate 'Nigger'! 'Nigger' sucks! I'm gonna burn 'Nigger'!"

lol, but seriously, nice cover, hopefully Nas can come up with another great album, I personally thought "Hip Hop Is Dead" was a great album, near-classic almost. His second-best album, in my opinion (we all know what his best album is).

*my friend

Black people in the counter
white costumers - Hmmm ye I would like 2 buy Nas album 'NIGGER'?
Black chicks - ohhh hell noooo.. U didnt jus call me Nigger... mothafucka Ill fuck U up white boy..who U callin nigga...nahhh... hold my earings tenisha hold my earings. lol

Diz album gonna bring a lot of shit...If you know what im talkin about or maybe

I hope dats not true. Its impossible to take the history behind such a evil word and translate it to somethin good. Its like erasing history.

it is possible the ony reason that word spells hatred is because that's what we was taught as we were younger.

SUPER COSIGN.

y don't you wait and see?

Nigga u so wack. Stop watchin "Don't Be a Menace". there are barely no real radical dudes like dat. Thats jus ignorant cats like you who hate the dudes doin somethin youre not capable of bcuz you're too dumb and stupid to even comprehend anything. Moron...

Scoot, I'm right there with you fam; this is nothing more than a wack publicity stunt. He wants Jay's fame so bad that he'll denigrate his own people to do it. Selfish motives for sure..nothing good will come from this. I'll be burning a copy of this one...

That's what I'm afraid of, it could be just a huge publicity stunt.

I don't it is because this is going to lower his sales than raise them because so many people are afraid of confronting the word like it's God and it isn't

do you kno anything about nasir jones??..if u did then u would kno that nas has never worried about publicity...that's the least of his concerns..nas spits so sick that his name alone is all the publicity he needs..he is basically 1 of the only few dudes who is RESPECTED BY ALMOST EVERY MC...i 4 one can't wait for the tunes 2 come out and i will support him...i'm sure if he didn't have some fiyah inside of that plastic cd case he would not have started this debate by naming it "ni**a"[[1]]....

Regardless of whether it is a ploy to sell albums or not, the fact remains that Nas is an artist and as such he has a right and a purpose for entitling his work as he does. Many Black artists (and artists, in general) use the politically-incorrect to convey their message (in painting, literature, poetry, and yes, music). There is an enormous amount of shock value that his title evokes, but we as the audience shouldn't condemn him before studying his work. Let's see how he handles this small orb of great conflict and intensity. Then we should hear what the artist, himself, has to say through both his work and post album release interviews.

ie. Would you look at a blank canvas, only knowing the title of the piece to come, and say it's worthless?

agree^^...cover look like sum real serious type professor nas going on..

Lyrics to one of my favorite Tribe joints, much love...but where you going with this my dude?

Hey Pretty Lady.. Haha
But yea, he could do something else with the cover..
Kinda like that Roots did.
Have an old pic, that shows a struggle. Not just him sittin in a chair.

I couldn't disagree more. He's just trying to be all on Bill O'Reilly and CNN explaining his album, getting free promotion, basically doing Jay Z's job from when he was still at Def Jam. ANd don't be confused, off the mic, Nas is no KRS-ONE, he'll come off looking real ignorant on on of those shows. If the content ain't tight on this album, I'm through funkin' with him, and don't hate, b/c I've been a fan of his since 94'. Hip hop really must be dead if he has to pull a stunt like this.

your the reason he would be attempting this

I dont kno illseed, if a white kid came to me and INTENTIONALLY used nigger for the album name, we might have to get into some HARDCORE GANGSTA SHIT...lmao Might have to slap a few trucker hats off....jk

true i feel you...
im jewish b so if i heard someone say kike it would be offensive but if there was a jewish rapper (which there really is LOL) but if he was as big as nas and had his stripes like him...(illmat,still,gdson,etc etc) and he was comin with an album called kike and he was known for intellectual hip-hop, reaching positive and negative effects while covering each formality by honest truth and righteous judgement almost an established movement you can say and a kid came to me and asked did you buy that kike album? i wouldnt react hasrhly...
yet if he were to say did you buy that kike album? that album sucked because he's a jew or a kike and they cant rap then id be ready to blast fools! otherwise it should just be taken as another word if not used offensivley in my opinion though of course..

but then again im wiser then that and i would simply say did you buy the new nas album to avoid all possible negative altercation..right

true true

YOU SEEM A LITTLE EMOTIONALLY CHARGED.

YOU CALL HIM "YOUR PLAYBOY"? HOLD ON THERE BUDDY

Good Job.