Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Nas: World Premiere “Be A N***er Too”
Posted by Bossip Staff
Click HERE to check out the World Premiere of Nas’ video “Be A N***er Too.” This one truly speaks for itself.
Update: The album formerly known as “Ni**er” is set to drop on July 15th.
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1st???
oh yeah I’m first finally
2nd?
@LIL LATTE! YOU ALWAYZ 1ST, DAMN!!! LOL
I LOVE U N*****SSSSSSSSSSSSS! SEXY *****!
NAS IS THE DAWNING OF RAP KING SUPREME!!! GET THEM *****Z TO BOW AT YOUR FEET NIGGR!!!
glok9n
@LIL LATTE! YOU ALWAYZ 1ST, DAMN!!! LOL
No not always….
Nas is hot….
WOW!!! That is real!
Very deep …and long…all in all a good message. MTV wont paly it with out the blurs and usual MTV ish censorship!
this is what made hip-hop great…
how Perez beat you to this video Bossip?
This was deep.
YEAH HOW COME BOSSIP
long as hell… but I like it. I like the direction he’s taking. Love the song. CAN’T… WAIT… FOR… THE… ALBUM… TO… DROP..!!!!!!
Such a cute couple. Kelis always looks fly….
It coulda been stronger. Hope this was just a precursor to all the real ish the album is gonna delve into.
Tight! Nas is in my FAV 5 MCs!
This is a return to the true essence of hip hop. The time when hip-hop was the CNN for the hood.
Nas jacked this concept from Spike Lee… not mad at him though, still looks hot.
LOVE KELIS HAIRSTYLE STILL..IT SUITS HER WELL!
LOVING KELIS HAIR ATYLE STILL..IT SUITS HER WELL.
This is fire but the hook was borrowed from Eazy E. RIP.
Hot!
Nas took a risk putting this message out, which is more than I can say for these other lames. The video was strong, but it could’ve been stronger…budgeting maybe? Anyway, it delivered the message and that’s all that matters.
damn Kelis….that ***** is looking jive tende….like a surlion!!!
**tender…..like a surlion!!**
I got a feeling that this is gonna be a very hot album. This dude is real.
Finally a Major Rap Artist doing something with his power & influence…
*I had no idea he was gonna do a video for it too…
I’m sick of this “fantasy” bulls#it = expensive cars, bottle popping, a$$ shakin’, etc.. being shown ALL OF THE TIME!!!
Ever since “the man” got his hands on our music it’s never been the same…
Big-ups to Nas for using his voice to provoke thought & discussion…
Do the knowledge and get your head out of your a$$es…
I’m a fan of all kinda hip-hop music but for some time now it’s been devoid of any “realism” and serious and/or the “upliftment of Black” type content…
Someone has to explain this to me. I dont really get what the message is.
Brooklyn, Stand UP!….
Are you Joey?
That is so old. Stick that fork in it.
Whats with the hyphenated *****s? Kike-*****s, Spic-*****s… Is it the same as hyphenated Americans? This track leaves me wanting.
DAMN, these N*iggas again…. Psych! Nas is trying to single handedly reincarnate hiphop.
@Chileboo,
“Nas took a risk putting this message out…”
Whats the message again?
Yeah this is old and tired.. Im so over this ***** stuff! Give it a break!
The video and song are just as dumb and ignorant as
GLOK9N. There is no point that anyone can comprehend other than (as GLOK9N’s racist, disgusting ***** just showed) giving people an excuse to use the N word and disrespect African American leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, Miles Davis, Billie Holliday, Dorothy Dandridge, Madame C.J. Walker, and our future president, Barrack Obama, and all African Americans in general. Call people how they should be called…by their name.
@DC_Diva
I couldnt agree more. This ***** is just plain ignorant. I see that he is trying to send a message but do it another way. I don’t agree with this. I’m just sayin.
Freedom of speech at it’s hottest hour. July 15th is on speed dial. lol
Definitely a deep message but leave it to the one and only to be real like this. Them other folks are so worried about what they have materialistically that the real issues aren’t even a twinkle in their eyes.
only ones who are ignorant can say that this song is ignorant.
and why does he have to get his message across in a different way? what people who think they know it all and so “righteous” fail to understand is that a lot of people only understand important messages when it’s presented to them in the raw. sometimes you have to use slur and cuss words for those people to understand you.
so this video and song is no where near ignorant. cause let’s face it. we are way p***** that “we shall overcome” p*****ive aggressive type *****. with hip hop you can be clever and keep it 100 all at the same time. and that’s what this man did.
GO ‘HEAD NAS. SCHOOL THESE *****S!
Nas is that *****…. Lol nah but this song been out for a while now… And if anyone doesnt like it, we all have the luxury of not listening….
And it’s SIRLOIN damnit…
Ms. Philly …that would read nigge(r)s. Don’t forget & Thank you lol
I’m really starting to dig Nas’ usage and public “owning” of the word… I didn’t like it at first but now I feel his work will have the effect of diminishing the strength of negativity *****ociated to the word…It’s social therapy and it’s wonderful. Thanks Nas!
@ Ms. Philly: Well put, and you presented it like a champ i aint mad at you….
School them *****s!! lol hold the fort down…
Ms Philly… thank you.
Why do we continue to sugar coat everything say it like it is…
So I guess we should continue to
about money,hoes, guns, sex jewelry and *****…. all bull*****…
I LOVE IT ….
@ Cage
LMAOOO!!
WHAT UP BROOKLYN!
@ Just Me: What up ma how u been? Good i hope, since i might not get back to this thread again..
@ Braided beauty: What up girl, ***** it might be the wrong thread but oh well…. I see u sista…
LOVE HIM!
Okay I’m feelin and understanding what he’s saying but I must ask……”Isn’t there a better way to convey what he’s sayin!?!”
@ Slide Like a Fresh Pair of Gators (love the tag)
I agree with you it’s refreshing in the sense it’s not the same BS about cars, money and girls……..in the real world life is way more than that! I LOVE he’s speaking out and making you think and sparking conversation I hope more choose the path he’s taking!
I like what Nas had to say about Obama too, this young man is on his A game that’s for sure!
And it’s SIRLOIN damnit…
LMAO Cage, you beat me to it.
again what is up with people’s gravies disappearing? Bossip, que tu problema?
@DC DIVA! ***** YOU! YOU DUMB IGNORANT AZZ NIGGR!CALL YOU BY YOUR NAME?…..OK NIGGR I GOTCHA …IMMA THROW IN A EXTRA NAME FOR YA …NIGGR BYTCH!
Serious topic…but it seemed like it was 3 minutes of city shots, 5 minutes of just showing people’s faces…and then something happened where a boy and a white man and then nuthing…is this to be continued?
message is still is raw though..i doubt mtv will play it until after obama wins.
—-> MS. PHILLY said it best!
(You have to be ignorant to say this song is ignorant!) ☻
Really though…when I first heard this song I was immedaitely feeling it. Refreshing and yes he took a chance, these rappers now a days are a sad sight generally …
The word isn’t going anywhere. The message isn’t in the word but in learning the HIS-Story of the word.
When you shed light on a subject those who have been in the dark squint because the light hurts
No one should play it. People got lynched, sprayed with waterhoses, bit by dogs, and just basically treated less than human all so that their future generation didn’t have too go through what they went through. And now we are on the cusp of having a black President and this idiot decides too do something like this. I am so disappointed in him, and I am going to start my petition and protest so that radio stations and video stations do not play this song nor promote this album. I am going to find out the addresses of every record executive at that company and we will go and protest at their house. Because if Bossip and some of these idiots on Bossip don’t realize how detremental this is then other people have too stand up.
I mean what’s next. What will hip-hop do next. It is time too put a stip to this foolishness.
It’s the year 2008, right.
These fools live in the past. I feel sorry for these fools. Spike Lee is included.
La Sharpton and La Jackson are also fools. They live off racism.
I pity the fools.
We as Blacks are too dumb, def, and blind to see what has been done to us over the course of 400+ years and counting. He put it plain so that even a baby would understand!
Ya’ll call this ignorant???
Damn, all the bs music out here ***** this, hoe that, my car, shake that azz hoe and no one has a problem with that. Some even let the kids listen and dance to it cause it’s “so cute”
Learn the HIS-Story and listen to more than the hook
@ umemployed
Hey…maybe you not learning your history and knowing the truth as to what is going on out here is the reason you are unemployed. SMDH!!!
@ I’m just me
LMAO! I guess he/she set him/herself up for that one! ;o)
In reference to the tag “unemployed” that is……;p
@ I’m just me
LMAO
Let em know sis
MAN BOSSIP! WHAT’S UP WITH THE BS YALL TRY TO PULL? I JUST THE WROTE THE MOST IMPORTANT POST I’VE EVER WRITTEN AND YALL DON’T PUT IT UP! I BET IF I WOULDA BEEN ON SOME DUMB ***** IT WOULDA BEEN UP THERE. YALL CAN SUCK THE ***** THAT COMES OUTTA MY ***** WHEN I HAVE DIARRHEA!!!!!
JUST LIKE I THOUGHT! DUMB *****S
@ bria
Props for standing up for your convictions BUT did you petition anybody about all the nonsense (pimps and hoes ish) that can be heard on any urban radio station at any time. Your ability to stand for your beleifs is one of the many things the soldiers before us faught (and perished) for so do your thang but remember, the word ******* was least on their minds. There were too many other things to take to task and there still are.
foolishness
if any black person goes and buy this album is an UNCLE TOM, this is a perfect time for us to show this *****, if we don’t buy he won’t make another one. to all the black people don’t go out there and buy this garbage. this is the greatest disrespect. send this a *****hole a message. he doing this for promotion.he is one of the best mc but this is’nt the way to do it. once again send him a message.
I HATE THIS WORD and the hook is whack.
The message in the song is decent. Hip hop is dead and Nas is contributing to it with this gimmick.
I LOVE NASIR’S SEXY ***** DAMN IF I WAS KELIS I WOULD ON THAT D**K EVERY NIGHT
@ willow
u are so right!! he needs to stop and every one who buys this is a sellout!! dont support someone who is fifghting to be called a ***** there are some many things to fight for why this? SMDH
Finally something Hate In ‘08 loves, and I don’t mean the chick whose leg I came on the other day.
Kudos to Nas for this track and this video. We know its not going to get any airplay on MTV or BET, which is sad, but we need this right here, right here. Say what you may, but it is certainly better than “Yahhh Trick Yahh” by Soulja Boy or “Lollipop” by Weezy F. Baby. BTW, how gay is Lil Wayne that he has to preface that song with “No homo?” Just the fact that he needed to say that at the beginning illustrates to me his insecurity with his manhood. No homo, but you kiss your daddy? Whatever, *****.
Anyways, back to Nas and this track. This is good stuff Mr. Jones. I’m definitely going to check for the album in July.
@Bria
I am so with you. I am all for a change in hip-hop and not just rapping about cars and women, pero, under no cir*****stance can I say that blantant usage of that word is acceptable. The N word can never be “owned” because it will always carry a stigma, regardless of what album some rapper drops. In my eyes, it is complete disrespect for those who fought against the word, and lost their lives.
I get it, he’s doing something “different” by not being afraid to use the word. So since it’s ok now for a black man to call himself the N word, it should be ok for anyone to say it right? That’s right, I didn’t think so.
Let’s face it, people are buying the hype while once again making us look like idiots. You wanna get rid of the N word? Quit using it!
Totally got the message in this one. Nas really has something to say here. Love it or hate it, it is what’s really going on. One has to be blind, crazy and/or brainwashed not to get this.
The video itself is good. i don’t agree w/ the message, and my fear is that WHATEVER the message is (i don’t know what it is) might get lost out there. Remember majority of music is buy my whyte boys in the surburbs….i don’t like it.
I thought Kelis was more intelligent than to hook up with an illiterate, ignorant buffoon.
I am on Bossip daily and I usually just read the comments and laugh…but when we have a serious topic just for us it *****es me off to see ignorant azz black folks talking about writing letters and making sure that the record execs (AKA white folks) dont play a song that has such a powerful message.
I bet when Lil Wayne dropped Lollipop or when Make Ya Bootay Talk hit the airwaves this BIA wasnt up protesting them being played on the radio.
I understand completely what NAS is trying to do. If we as a people take the power from the word *****, it can no longer be used to demean, defame or otherwise slander us as a people. Without the power that WE give it ***** is nothing but an adjective.
So puh-leese when we are on the cusp of finaly having a ***** president please put your skills/efforts of reaching out to the community,protesting and letter writing to good use to make sure that we have the honor of seeing the first black president and black woman for that matter, in the white house.
YES WE CAN
@INTRODUCING Me,
Youre the only person who has put forth an argument on what Nas’s message is supposed to be. Thanks. Everyone keeps saying he has a message but fail to articulate what the hell the message is. I can indetify with both sides of the issue. The socalled N-word is like black folks dirty laundry and I can see how many blacks dont want it to be mainstreamed.
On the other hand there are just people regardless who will always demean blacks because of racism. There are people who will always have a negative view of blacks regardless of how often they hear the word. Again, its just racism.
Fifty years ago, if I were to call you black, that would have been considered offensive. Now Black is Beautiful. The N-word has a history and no one has a monopoly or exclusive rights to be able to define it and reject completely or to define it and celebrate it.
I’ve always believed that the common use of the word has taken away its venom but its all about context and intent.
@ INTRODUCING
I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER. I’M JUST SCARED THAT THE “MSG” WILL GET LOST.
YES WE CAN, YES WE DID, YES WE WILL!!! OBAMA’08
@INTRODUCING ME! THANK YOU ME SKOOL THESE NIGGRZ…STICK AND STONES YADA YADA…..NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME! I LOVE YOU PPL HERE !
I’m so glad he made a video. Can’t wait for the album to drop
I hope he doesn’t make any money off of this trash. This song is trash and will not receive too much airplay due to its inflammatory speech. I heard the song and became infuriated and had to turn it off after hearing the lyrics. I will not support such derroagtory speech. It is ignorance and they need to burn those jackets that they so proudly wore at the grammy’s. I also hope def jam drops him after this album.
Not impressed ….just makin more money off ghetto exploitation…
shame !!!
Nas spits the truth on this one. Many of you may not feel it because of the distractions that currently in your face but one day it will hit you like a ton of bricks. Don’t think racism still exists?? Ask those who’ve been murdered and shamed into hiding. To those of you black folks who think that you’re white, one racist attack towards you will hopefully wake you up and will definitely change your whole outlook and remind you that you’re a Nigg*r.
I REALLY HATE THIS WORD AND THE FACT WE STILL USE IT,I HAVENT SEEN THE VIDEO YET BUT I WILL WATCH IT TO SEE WHAT THE MESSAGE IS,I JUST WISH THE WORD WOULD GO AWAY,ITS TOO NEGATIVE TO ME.
IMO there are many different messages in this song about the word N*gger.
The main message I get from this is that people of other ethnicities/races love to use the word n*gger. They like it when blacks call them this (they believe they are down), & they use it now amongst themselves.
Nas is letting them know they can be a N*gger, anyone can, & this is what your membership includes
‘they like to strangle n*gger’s, blaming n*gger’s, shooting n*gger’s, hanging n*ggers, still you want to be a n*gga too.’
Sign up now.
Okay…they need to be on a “selective genocide” list too…Thanks NAS and KELIS for putting “African-Americans” back 400 years…thanks a lot
Blacks are the most imitated group, everyone wants to take our culture and either profit from it or be like us
Tanning beds, tanning creams, gold teeth, platinum teeth, locks, braids, afros, the way we dress, etc…
Everybody wants to be a ***** until they realize what it means to be a “*****”
When they hung us from trees, burned us, raped us,
but now the Arabs are “*****s” too
So yeah that’s right ya’ll my *****s too
Sure you wanna be a ***** too