Nas, Hip Hop is (NOT) Dead!
Nas is a rapper that has been in everybody’s mouth since his even before his latest album, “Hip Hop is Dead,” released on December 19, 2006. We heard from Nas this same week expressing his thoughts after Jesse Jackson’s crass remarks on Barack Obama and we will keep hearing from him as his new album is coming up.
“I think Jesse Jackson, he’s the biggest player hater” said Nas about the incident, but he also talked about his new untitled album scheduled to be released next July 15th, although it was leaked to the Internet early this month.
Nas said that “leak is inevitable. Everybody leaks. Everybody knows that. You gonna get leaked. It wasn’t that I was just excited about the leak; I was excited about the record finally being out of my hands. It’s finally out of my clutches. It’s finally out in the world. You gotta embrace that. That’s just people hearing music.”
This untitled album features Chris Brown. Busta Rhymes and The Game and has been produced by DJ Green Lantern, Mark Ronson, Stic Man, Stargatem Salaam Remi, and Polow Da Don. From the new material, “Fried Chicken,” “Breathe,” and “Make the World Go Round” are the first smashing song that soon will climb up the charts.
Nasda was born Nasir Jones on born September 14, 1973, in Queensbridge, New York City, adopting the former stage name of Nasty Nas to debut with the album “Illmatic” in 1994, although many critics consider his 1999 album “Nastradamus” as his breakthrough into the main stream.