eldee:

Anyone that knows Nas will agree with me that he has had among the most eye-catching track titles. I believe Godson has taken a more respctable road to get publicity and album sales. Since the beef with Jay-Z, it has been hard for him to get people to go on to get his message no thanks to the new pop-culture rave in hiphop.

Life's A Bitch
Got Yourself A Gun
Everybody's Crazy
and the one that finally got the attention Hip-hop Is Dead

Of all these ones 'Nigger' has obviously been the boldest of them. I think he has done no wrong since he has always lived up to the expectations put on him as one of the few remaining poets of the golden age of hip-hop. Even if he used the album title to get recognition,I will rather have my fave rapper getting publicity through conroversial issues than by going commercial.

This is also a way to prove to everyone that signing with DefJam will not change anything other than his mode of dressing.

I-Shine:

@Po Deep: That's the cover of his upcoming album due for 2008.

@Chiogo & bolajibaok:

I have a question for both of you; do you guys listen to hip-hop? If your answer is YES then your knowledge of hip-hop is incomplete, because Nas is one of the few knowledgeable emcees to be living. And, if your answer is NO then I will take it as you’re ignorant about what is called hip-hop. People were surprised merely because of the issue of Don Imus, Don Imus called a black female basketball team “little nappy head hoes” and Rev. Al Sharpton too him to the sword by kicking him off the airwaves because Don Imus is a radio presenter. The American media or should I say the white media backed Don Imus and castigated hip-hop artist that they also should be stripped off their contracts by their record labels for their usage of the N-word, the H-word and the B-word but that is just impossible because the so called whites started the usage of the phrase NIGGER and all hip-hop artists did was to coin the word NIGGER into NIGGA in order to combat the racy word NIGGER. So it was a shocker to see Nas label his upcoming album NIGGER after the existence of hip-hop was threatened by the American media and they asked that hip-hop should be banned. So I hope you understand why heads were banging after Nas revealed the title of the album and that leads to my question, is white community trying to ban hip-hop simply because it’s a black thing? Or simply because they hate the fact that young black males are getting their life together with it or getting wealthy through it? That is left for you to answer because hip-hop isn’t the only genre of music that is affecting the society, lets take Rock as an example and see what damage that genre of music has done and it’s still doing to it’s listeners; I am a Nigerian that reside in Europe and during my high school days I knew quite a huge number of my classmates that dropped out of school because of their usage of cocaine, some couldn’t even continue studying because they got pregnant. Rock is a music that unleash you inner most appetite for sex and drug so the society should called that it should be banned too or they aren’t going to say anything about it because whites dominate that genre of music? Nas said on a track titled HOPE that “And I say what I say, and I mean it/ Y'all take it how you want to take it/ Cause if you're askin' - Why is hip-hop dead?/ It's a pretty good chance you're the reason it died, man”, so Nas is an erudite person and for him to call an album “hip-hop is dead” then you ought to know there is a reason. And after listening to the entire album I believed he only called the album hip-hop is dead not because hip-hop is truly dead but because you and I are killing hip-hop little by little and instead of new or upcoming artist to learn the art their only concern was to hit the big screen sell platinum’s and quite the stage. Trying taking this to the street and ask the so called hip-hop heads why they are doing music and their responses will make you feel nauseous; whereas hip-hop is meant education, it’s a revolutionary music, a music from the heart that should be delivered to eardrums with the intent to touch souls.
i agree with u on dis one bro,u are not d only one saying this,kanye west recently said in an interview that ''nas'' in his view represents true hiphop,he called ''nas'' a living legend.i respect his boldness and if he wish to title hs album the ''N'' word i think it's to bring black folks back to the reason why Hip hop is still breathing.

ritchboy:

Fergy
i no more about hip hop dan all u knuckle heads put together.
As for souljah boy,the dude is a GENIUS.I mean he is by far the worst lyricist in the game(ma 2 year old nephew would do beta), but using the internet he gives himself some mad promo,comes up wid a crazy ass dance,managed to stay ontop da charts for months and has sold over 600 thousand cd's.PICK THAT OUT!!!!!
for the record,my favorite MC is jadakiss,no one else even comes close.