So the news dropped this week that Nas new album will not be titled N-Word. It will either be self-titled or untitled, depending on whom you ask. The release date being floated around is still July 1, which is, coincidentally, my birthday.
In part because of my day job and in part because I feel like I've been devoting entirely too much ink to Nas, I refrained from weighing in on the latest news. I'm still trying to sort out thoughts and have been doing a lot of reading and following what others are writing. Nas has been making the rounds at Web sites and radio talking about the new album, so I decided to just fall back.
I'm not surprised the album's title will be changed, although I'm disappointed, if only from the standpoint that a Harvard Law professor is able to release a book titled Nigger, while a rapper is not. Above all, I think Nas has achieved his goals in many ways, that being able to show that censorship exists still an that there are double standards for rap as a media.
One day - when we're old and gray - I'm sure the back story about why the album was changed will come out.
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