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Nas Interview… Answers Up
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From SPIN magazine, God’s Son is interviewed over the last financial year and last album to latest project.
You gotta give Nas points for trying. After a year in which he caught flak from Bill O’Reilly for participating in a benefit, saw his nemesis turned label boss Jay-Z leave Def Jam, and shot a failed reality show with his wife Kelis, the 34-year-old Nasir Jones lost his long, contentious struggle to name his ninth album Nigger, replacing the title at the last minute. Presiding over a listening session at New York’s Electric Lady studios, he’s insistent that the controversy and its anticlimax were never intended to be a Molotov cocktail thrown for publicity’s sake, but rather a creative rebirth from one of hip-hop’s most consistent artists. [Read more]
Peep behind the scenes to the “Be A Nigger Too” video shoot.
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