Thursday, December 27th, 2007
We Now Present to You: Nigger
Posted by Bossip Staff
Is it everything that you thought it would be?
Discuss.
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M-DADDY OAKLANDS FINEST, I was FIRST
If a white boy says hey have you heard Nas’s new album call Nigger. Can I kick his ass?
Yes you may!!!
@Carolyn
Congratulations
I’ll buy it.
Yea Oakland you can Town Stomp his ass..
I will wait until the album is released before I pass judgment. On this for instance I will refrain from judging a book by it’s cover.
Peace and Blessings
Carolyn
Thanks
Pandora’s box is now officially open!!
I don’t see the problem.Listen to the album before you judge and make your decisions. No one complained when Cornell West named his book Nigger. Nas is speaking out for “our ” people. I think he just made this title because it will make people think. You go ahead Nas!!
@ M-DADDY OAKLANDS FINEST
Thanks You!!!
Let dem know son what a nigga mentality is..Just a few people in hiphop is talking about the New World Order, how they trying to kill off the black males, nobody is talkin bout telling the sistas to put some damn clothes on and wear natural hair, eating good foods instead of fast foods..WAKE UP NIGGAS! IT’s TIME FOR A REVOLUTION FREE YOUR MIND..
http://www.myspace.com/nazarethjewelz
@Brim Life 62
Cool
And yea the cover is hot imean look at it, he is dressed up w/suit and tie, reading at a desk doing his BI and the crackers still think your a NIGGER..I love it!
@truth.com:
TELL IT!!! Thanks for being open minded cause when it comes to his game, NAS is the TRUTH!!
rap truly is for “its” audience. i hate how people who arent into hip hop / rap constantly make judgements on what is being released. nigga if you dont like it dont listen to it & shut the fucck up. nas is the homie. his last album was hot.
I’m looking for a white boy. Found one. “hey white boy whats the name of Nas’s new album” “Nigger” Beats that ass
i know damn well it better b better then that ‘hip hop is dead’ trash!!
still luv u nas!!
BUT IT BETTER B!!
@ brim life … EXACTLY! THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING
LMAO @ that album cover.
LMAO @ M DADDY
Lip chap aka Fuzzy out………………………
DOPE!!!! I can’t wait to hear the content! I know that Nas is coming from a good place in his heart with this one.
Let the conversation begin!
yall some ignorant fuckers especially talking about kickin’ these white boys asses. Stop being a hypocrite thats why people discriminate against black people. SMH.
@whatever
Dont start none and it wont be none. I’m really not in the mood today
I am loving the cover…It shows the true contradiction to the word of what it actually means and how some feel about Black people. I am purchasing it either way…Even if the album sucks, cause we need to support our community whenever one of us makes a stand.
LMAO @ the parental guidance warning-no shit
WOW I luv some NAS & this is to the left IN A GOOD WAY!!! I think it will bring about an active discussion & that is ALWAYS a good thing. I mean look at the cover, NAS is sitting there, the Anti-Thesis of what people think a N-word is. Maybe now, this will get the RIGHT people talking about the use of the N-word.
I’m a big fan of Nas. He always… okay… most of the time, has something meaningful and indept to say, so I think sending a few dollars on this ablum will be worth it.
@whatever
Yeaaaaa thats the reason people discriminate against us and imean US not you only white people say fuckers..lol
And why everytime black people voice how they feel its ignorant damn can we be mad…shit!
when does the album come out?
I, like Jay Z thought this album was misguided but now I really don’t know. At the least it is a thought & debate provoking piece of work. Lets see what happens, but I’m tellin y’all if this album causes YTs to start thinking its okay to call Mary a nigger when I’m driving in my Hummer, Nas better believe I’ll be coming to his place wid my steel capped Doc Martens on…..
I will ignore this album entirely because I like Nas and fear that this will make me hate him. La la la la la. I don’t hear it. I don’t see it.
Nice picture though.
LMFAO @ that fuckin album cover.
JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!!!!!
I wouldn’t spend 5 cents on that shyt. I’m sick and tired of niggers and the whole nigger mentality, and the whole support him because he’s a black person, even if the crap is wack. Why couldn’t he call it Man or Real Black Man, instead of that? I wish my black people would wake the fuck up and stop accepting everything that is thrown their way by someone just because they’re black.
Dolla Bill
Are you still runnin from St Louis? Or did you pay his country ass? LOL
I like the photography and lighting and shit and the pose and the chair.
http://www.theblackactor.com
I’m tellin y’all if this album causes YTs to start thinking its okay to call Mary a nigger when I’m driving in my Hummer, Nas better believe I’ll be coming to his place wid my steel capped Doc Martens on…
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lmfao!!!!!!!! Mary, wasn’t Nas tapin that ass? Congrats on the new album : )
somebody need to this nigger back to 1930 and see how he feel about being called a (nigger)
FUCK NAS!!!
@Corree
You have missed the point of the title even with the cover right there in your face homie..
It’s a war against us and we the only ones that dont know it!
I am so looking forward to what Mr. Jones is talking about. Fine Ass!!! Gimme some sugga!!!
I like Nas and all but…SERIOUSLY!!!WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS ALBUM TITLE!! This is just gonna give white folks the okay to even say the word even more now. I’m so dissappointed in him. SMH
All I gotta say Nas is that you better make damn sure that this CD is poppin like Illmatic or else you’ll be a DUMB ASS NIGGER!!!! LOL
If hip hop weren’t dead, I would kill it. Nasty’s shit is proof that today’s black motherfuckers don’t know a fucking thing about our history or struggle. They only know dollar signs, blood diamonds, self hatred and bullshit. Everyone who buys this IS a nigger. I don’t have to do shit, cuz y’all will kill each other. Like ya BEEN doin. Keep it up, haters. Keep up the fall back.
This young brother deserves to get smacked up side his head with the Bible. I have lived 86 years trying to put this word behind me and here comes this young fella trying to demise the work of generations. He should have called this book something else, praise Jesus
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Nas thinks he’s the next MLK except he ain’t shit. You ain’t no streets ‘disciple’ so sit the fuck down you blasphemous piece of ignorant shit. He think’s what he’s doing is so original and intellectual except he its not. Paris Hilton’s been on this game for years: its called CAUSING CONTROVERSY FOR YOUR OWN PROFIT. Nas did it with ‘Hip Hop is Dead’ and he failed and he’s attempting to do it with this album. Don’t be fooled people. Nas, you truly deserve to be called a NIGGER for thepain you are going to cause with this album.
It’s fine to confront the word, especially the use of the word in our community, but putting it on the cover like that is clearly for publicity purposes. SMH
You know how the big retailers always run out of CD’s and some of them even put CDs (usually rap) behind the counter. Would any of you go ask a sales rep for it, would you ask a sales rep that wasn’t black.
@ M-DADDY
Fuck St. Louis….I still ain’t pay his country ass and I’m back in Chi-Town beggin R. Kelly for a loan.
SMH Nas is grasping and pseudo-intellectual while trying to be a conscious rapper and Jay Z is grasping and pseudo-intellectual while trying to be commercial/pop. In short, they’re both over…they should focus on their gorgeous wives.
Nigger. I guess this is alright to say now according to this one black man. Lets get the kettle started with a large batch of hate
I can’t wait to buy the Nigger album.
Is there a release date for the Nigger album?
I see there is a parental advisory on the Nigger album
Do you think alot of white people will buy the Nigger album?
Who produced the Nigger album?
@sammy j parker…lol Jay-z never claimed to be intellectual..he’s stayed in one lane…
Nas..lol “just because he wear a kufi, don’t mean that he’s bright, cause you don’t understand him, it dont mean that he’s nice, it just means you don’t understand all the bullshit that writes, is it oochi-wally or is One-Mic. is black girls lost or shorty owe you for ice, I’ve been real all my life, they confuse with conceit, since i will not lose they try to help me cheat, i will not lose even in defeat, cause that’s a valuable lesson learned so it evens up for me”~Jigga
@Brim life 62. I really don’t think I missed the point. Cosigning on this is counterproductive, and I won’t be a part of that. Nas is just trying to build hype for this album off the back of something that should be considered insulting and degrading. If you think it’s “cool” and “deep” then that’s you, but again, I think it’s pointless.
Dolla Bill
Just find R-Kelly a girl between the ages of 13 and 16 and he will bread you out
Who is going to sell this album? Do you think Wal-Mart,Target or Best Buy are going to have that album displayed in their stores?
This is the dumbest shit ever..and i’m not sayin this worrying about what white people are going to think about this album…i don’t care what white people think, they can eat a dick, but this is dumb…Nas is over, Kelis never got started and ending his career like this is sad…
@Strong Black Man
I disagree…Last month, before the release of “American Gangster,” I watched an interview…I got in on it late, but I watched a good 40 minutes of it and it was the most vapid, pseudointellectual garbage I’ve ever seen… I mean, the man talked about nothing for 40 minutes…And, it had nothing to do with the questions…they were legit…none leading
I agree. This is a publicity stunt to boost his sales. Why on earth do we need to give the ‘other side’ reason to say this word AGAIN!! Nas could have been more creative and found a word to use to get his point across. Talk about CONTROVERSY!!!
ahem Ok. . .
Who the Fuck Cares!!! If you start in on making something an issue, then ppls are goin to use it against you. I still think that all races should embrace their racial slurr names calling and take the power from the others. NOW WHAT!!! DISCUSS THAT NICCAR!!!
Hip Hop and/or rappers did not create or embed the word, epithet or diatribe into the American heart and psyche. The word NIGGER as used by NWA (who I would give credit for propagating its use in Hip Hop on a mainstream level), was used to express the prevailing attitude of black people in this country for centuries before NWA or even Hip Hop were conceived. That attitude being that regardless of what a black man in America does, achieve, accomplish or fails to do, he is, in the eyes of the white-power-structure, still a NIGGER! I mean NWA stood for Niggaz wit Attitudes. Did you ever ask yourself, what did they have an attitude about? They were pissed off about the poverty, drugs, gangs, mis-education, joblessness, and police brutality that they were born and raised in and forced to deal with on a daily basis.
La’shonda
He think’s what he’s doing is so original and intellectual except he its not. Paris Hilton’s been on this game for years: its called CAUSING CONTROVERSY FOR YOUR OWN PROFIT. Nas did it with ‘Hip Hop is Dead’ and he failed and he’s attempting to do it with this album. Don’t be fooled people. Nas, you truly deserve to be called a NIGGER for thepain you are going to cause with this album.
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I agree 100%!
What pain is he causing??? I choose to belive that Nas is taking a step forward. As long as this word is so taboo, pls are ALWAYS going to use it against blacks folks. I still believe in taking it and makin it our own, like what Stupahead did.
Hmmmmmm! Interesting!
Stringer Bell, Im with you.
A little bit of black magic is going to be brewing in a hot pot of Niggers, a black cat, a buckshot, a 9mm, Nigger blood, watermelons and fried chicken, and a few white man dollars thrown in for a huge **POW!!!**smoke effect. Cant wait to hear what hes talking about in all honesty.
LMFAO Ill be damned, does he really need the parental advisory?
Mickit,
I don’t understand how you can “take it and make it your own”? I mean, who should want to do that? Who should be so outer-directed that he should not only legitimize something vile and derogatory BUT need to make self-definitions using some other idiot’s opinion of you. If I come in tomorrow and someone calls me “cumbrain” and keeps at it until everyone here refers to me by that “name,” am I to refer to myself as “cumbrain”? What would be accomplished in that? If I “take it and make it my own,” I’ve done 2 things: 1. internalized some sick individuals psychic bullshit and 2. muddied, senselessly, my own sense of right and wrong.
Calling me a NIGGER. . .
If that makes you feel better callin me names, go right ahead and call me what ya want! I know what I am and what I aint. I am strong enough to handle your need to feel important and special. For you, this I will do.
Outrageous titles are usually a sign of poor quality within. He is creating attention with the “N” word to have people overlook the shitty content, He better sale some albums b/c Kelis likes to spend but cannot earn a dime off of her music
@ La’shonda …. LMAO !!! YOU SOUND HELLA ANGRY LOL TOO FUNNY
^^^ from my smart mouth GreatGrandmother died when I was 20 at the age of 90 7 years ago.
nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger, ooops did i say nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger
grew up in the deep south. Reaction is what they want, when you dont give it, they have no power.
I guess that won’t be sold at Walmart.
this man is a genius
@ Naz *yawnnnnnnnn* next!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dam brimlife i had to look diatribe up, never heard that word before. dam you one smart nigger aint you
@Mistyblue..
Yo i was thinking the same thing about her comment she gets the official Hater Comment Of The Day Award..lol
The word Nigger aint gonna go away, BOTTOM LINE! Tryna hide it, outlaw it, have national boycotts, sit ins, bus trips and what have you, aint gonna make the word go away. Giving it that much attention aint gonna help either.
lol @siccadasickness …why he got to be a mutherfucker.. . nigger
WHY DO BLACK PEOPLE ALWAYS CARE WHAT WHITE PEOPLE THINK OF US, OR HOW WE LOOK IN FRONT OF THEM? THEY DONT CONSTANTLY HAVE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FOREFRONT OF THEIR MIND WHEN THEY DO ANYTHING.
@mistyblue, because they the “haves” and we are the “have nots” . .. . we wont equal playing field to everything they have, and more
F*CK Nas, with his punk ass, I will never support the use of that word. If his cd is good let it stand on it’s own merit.
Despite the title - Im with Nasty - Queens bout to tear it up (quicker than Chris Strokes tears up Marques Houston butt e’ry night)
let me know when you got some music.
That Stings..
Im a lil scared.. I’ll admit it.
Nas is dope tho…
*(gulp)*
Lets have huge black ppls meeting and make Webster change the meaning in the dictionary, and then we will be all good.. . How many of yall in here are this. . .
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a. a black person.
b. a member of any dark-skinned people.
2. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
3. a victim of prejudice similar to that suffered by blacks; a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised.
Why the FUCK are we talkin bout this. Ask ya’ll grand mother/fathers and Greatgrand mother/father- how they feel on the matter. Yall holdin on to angry many of them have let go. WHY?!? If we know this isnt want we are why are we mad???
*what*
And I aint talking about grandparent and Greatgrandparents in their 30’s, 40’s or 50’s. I am talking about the ones, that was born in the early 1900’s. Ask them, let them tell you.
Mickit you’re just plain “IGNORANT”. Look up the definition of that word in Webster’s.
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF BOO, WHILE WHITE PEOPLE MAY BE THE MAJORITY, AND BLACKS THE MINORITY. THERE ARE PLENTY OF OPPROTUNITIES IF YOU **TAKE** THEM. TAKE BEING THE OPPERATIVE WORD. IM A YOUNG, SUCCESSFUL BLACK WOMAN. I TOOK EVERY OPPROTUNITY I WAS GIVEN, AND SOME THAT WERENT. LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT. PITFALLS AND STUMBLING BLOCKS ARE OUT THERE FOR MINORITIES BUT IT IS UP TO US TO RISE ABOVE THEM. ITS REALLY UP TO US TO DECIDE WE WILL NOT BE DEFINED OR DENIED BECAUSE OF OUR SKIN COLOR.
just did witeshoes and I posted it.
WHAT IS THIS BITCH MISTYBLUE TALKING ABOUT?
Witeshoes, you calling me a NIGGER!?!- tisk tisk, now play nice.
No Mickit, I’m calling you uninformed.
Witeshoes your opinion on this pls.
You know what you are as a person and you also know what you are not. My greatgrand mother told me that she has been called a nigger most her life.
But, once she learned to read and could take care of herself had a job and her own damn house. She was a nigger no more.
My Dearest response to being called a nigger. . . . “If that makes you feel better callin me names, go right ahead and call me what ya want! I know what I am and what I aint. I am strong enough to handle your need to feel important and special. For you, this I will do.”
If this woman who rasied me can let this go and she actually went through it day in and day out. I can let it go as well.
This album is going to be like the rest of his albums….flops!
How is Nas not Coon Of The Day, Bossip?
He wins Coon of the Day
He wins Coon of Week, maybe year
How about Coon of the year
Shit..Why not Coon of the decade…LOL
witeshoes, here is another defintion of the word
1usually offensive; see usage paragraph below : a black person
2usually offensive; see usage paragraph below : a member of any dark-skinned race
3: a member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons
usage Nigger in senses 1 and 2 can be found in the works of such writers of the past as Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens, but it now ranks as perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English. Its use by and among blacks is not always intended or taken as offensive, but, except in sense 3, it is otherwise a word expressive of racial hatred and bigotry.
As long as we’re talking about *that* word, have any of you ever read “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks” by Donald Bogle?
I don’t really like it but hey, Dick Gregory has an autobiography out called Nigger. Although it was released in 1964, I think.
Here’s an excerpt from the book:
And now we’re ready to change a system, a system where a white man can destroy a black man with a single word. Nigger. “When we’re through, Momma, there won’t be any niggers any more.”
Hopefully NAS is taking this type of approach on the album.
@ Blue Eyed Devil
No I haven’t, whats up with it?
It’s a really interesting book about black archetypes and stereotypes in film / media over the years and how they’ve been rejected, reclaimed and co-opted by the people they were aimed at. Fits right into this discussion, no?
@Blue Eyed Devil. It is VERy fittinf that you bring up that book. It indeed fight in VERY well with this discussion. The first time I got called a Nigger I was 16 years of age & had just moved to the South from Parts elsewhere. My Father had of course explained to me what the word meant but to be honest because I had never heard it before (at least aimed directly at me) it had NO effect on me whatsoever. In fact the person that used that word was most offended because I DIDN’T respond to his piss poor attempt at a racial slur. There’s 2 schools of thought here (ok maybe more than 2) & I am anxious to see WHICH school NAS has enrolled in.
so what? I just hope its a good album. Cuz with a name like Nigger, it better be a masterpiece.
I’m right there with you. I read the book during a History of Black Cinema course I was taking and it was pretty eye-opening. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about race and history in America, but the way he broke it down was pretty crazy.
Mickit, you must take into account the history and how the word originated. It’s not about letting go it’s about remembering how we struggled to be classified as 5/5 of a man not 4/5 as written in the Constitution of the United States. Stupid.
Stupid (witeshoes) the constitution wasnt written for woman (white), white poor men or anyone else that wasnt over 18, a man and owned land - dummy. And again find out what the word NIGGER really meant - you big dummy.
again witeshoes I post. . .
My Dearest response to being called a nigger. . . . “If that makes you feel better callin me names, go right ahead and call me what ya want! I know what I am and what I aint. I am strong enough to handle your need to feel important and special. For you, this I will do.”
If this woman who rasied me can let this go and she actually went through it day in and day out. I can let it go as well.
I am, You are and no one else here is defined by that word, why do YOU allow it to have so much power over you. No one said forget, we are saying MOVE ON!
Also witeshoes it was 3/5 not 4/5
HAHA Bossip lost…… because the cover is FAKE!!!!!……. It looks good… but it’s not the actual cover for the album……
yeah witeshoes I think you’re referring to the 3/5 Compromise, which is not part of the Constitution
you know not of what you speak so do us all a favor and stop
LOL @ some of these comments! For all that are judging this piece without a clear understanding of how Nas is trying to present it to you, I just challenge you to be a little more open minded and see what drove him to call the album Nigger. And to those of us who are in support of hearing the message and the content of this album we need to ask ourselves “If a white person brought this same album out, would I be this open-minded?” For most of us the answer would be a definative and collective HELL NO! Very thought provoking and controversial! Good debate material.
@Oh How I Wonder.
“If a white person brought this same album out, would I be this open-minded?. . . ”
Oh How I Do Not Care. Not because it was a white or black man doing it, but because what I said before.
I take it back amendments count..but you’re still 4/5ths of the way wrong!
love u nas!
oh ish, I dont know what happen to the rest of my post, i refuse to retype it. Anyway OHIW, it just doesnt matter to me anymore. Regardless who says it. A word does not bother men. ACTIONS do.
*me*
LOL @ oh how I do not care!
Mickit, I definately agree with you regarding the struggle of our people and Im not in anyway shape or form trying to downplay that struggle for equally and justice that our ancestors, grandmothers and grandfathers fought so hard to achieve. I just feel as though this was done for SHOCK value in order to convey a message of some sort…Not sure of what that message is at this point because I havent heard the album
OHIW, glad to make you laugh. I was wondering I could get away with just a “l”=laugh.
Im not either OHIW, I have been accused of doing that. I dont care what Nas or anyone else wanna name their album. I just think that it is time to move on with some things. NO one never said forget, just move forward.
OHIW nailed what I wanted to talk about. Sure, naming your album “Nigger” is about shock value, but is it shock value to sell albums or is it shock to open up a dialogue?
And I don’t know why people are pre-judgin’ the content of this album and Nas’ intentions when aint nobody even heard a SNIPPET of this album……. fall back…….
well i hope his album compensates for the title! cuz if not hes gonna get the biz for real… i hope he isnt doing it for publicity
Well Nas never came off as the type to bask attention in his entire career…… If you are familiar wit’ Nas and his music…. you would know that he’s a serious artist……
Oh, How Sad. It is a dark day in Hip-Hop, When a top shelf lyricist has to resort to such tactics to sell records. Nas managed to make quality music at least half his career without sacrificing his craft, and now