Con-tro-ver-sy: New Nas Single Is Racial Slur-Tastic

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New Nas Single Is Racial Slur-Tastic

Nas makes his bid for Lenny Bruce-hood on "Be A N—-— Too," the first single from his upcoming album, N—-—. The music has the familiar grandiosity of most late-era Nas, and the verses are a familiar grab bag of media disses, cultural refs and "shaking my third leg in the toilet" boasts. Not that anyone's going to talk much about either of those aspects after hearing the chorus.

I'm a n—-—, he's a n—-—, she's a n—-—, we's some n—-—, wouldn't you like to be a n—-— too?

To all my k—- n—-—s, s—- n—-—s, g—-— n—-—s, c—-- n—-—s, that's right, y'all my n—-—s too.

I'm a n—-—, he's a n—-—, she's a n—-—, we's some n—-—, wouldn't you like to be a n—-— too?

They like to strangle n—-—, blame a n—-—, shoot a n—-—-, hang a n—-—, still you wanna be a n—-— too?

True?

Inspired and liberated by his appropriation of the ethnic slur? Bored senseless? Unsure what all the words in the second line are? Hear for yourself.

EXCLUSIVE: Nas Drops Controversial Song "Be A Ni**er Too"; Calls Out All Races [AllHipHop]

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1:45 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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by HONEYBFLY at 02:13 PM on 04/21/08
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The idea that all this hype about the N word being used repeatedly in a rap song is equivalent to the hype of Jason Segal appearing full frontal in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Big fucking deal.

The song is decent, nothing you haven't heard before.
by Julio Allison at 02:17 PM on 04/21/08
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You've literally heard it before -- from Easy-E back in 1991.
by Julio Allison at 02:18 PM on 04/21/08
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@KingHater:

Sorry, that's Eazy.
by loudersoft at 02:24 PM on 04/21/08
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What is this N word everyone keeps referring to? Have I heard this word before?
by BigRicks at 02:27 PM on 04/21/08
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It's good to see that allhiphop.com has picked up the title of "The World's Most Dnagerous Site" after maintainingracialstereotypes.com went down.
by FionaScrapple at 04:28 PM on 04/21/08
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Rhymes with "trigga"!!!
by natepatrin at 04:38 PM on 04/21/08
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Man, Dr. Pepper was a little too hasty throwing all their pop music tie-in promo weight behind Axl.
by StuntKockSteeev at 04:43 PM on 04/21/08
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@natepatrin: I was four minutes too late to make that joke. Four. Minutes. FUCK.
by natepatrin at 07:40 PM on 04/21/08
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@StuntKockSteeev: If it makes you feel any better, I feel terrible about the inadvertent pun in my usage of the term "pop music".
by bcapirigi at 09:44 PM on 04/21/08
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whoa. with language like that he'll never get to host the tv like oprah winfrey.
by KRAFTJERK at 12:52 PM on 04/22/08
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Shouts out to Patti Smith