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NAS's new album title

NasNas is calling his new album “Nigger” (not “Nigga”) – a term this is symbolically illegal in NYC, and NYC is the one putting up the biggest fight….

Behemoth record label Universal Music Group must change the name of rapper Nas’s new album, “Nigger,” or risk losing $84 million in state investments, a Fort Greene assemblyman said this week.

“[They are] profiting from a racial slur that has been used to dehumanize people of color for centuries,” said Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries (D–Fort Greene), a former entertainment industry big-wig. [Brooklyn Paper]

Nas told Rolling Stone he’ll stick with the name anyway, even if…

“It’s probably going to make people uncomfortable. I don’t expect a lot of people to sell a record called Nigger. Hopefully, people can open their minds up and lose some of their fear and deal with it. It’s just an album. It’s one piece of the many things I do, and this will be one of my favorite pieces.” And his label is firmly behind him, “It will be certain record stores that will be scared to deal with it. The record label is gung ho, and it’s ready to go.”

50 Cent says Nas sucks. Some say it’s just a publicity stunt. What do you say?

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