…will Nas actually release an album titled “Ni**er” ?
If his record company does, it might cost them $84 million.
New York assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries (D–Fort Greene) has threatened to have the $84 million that the state has invested in Nas’ record label Universal and its parent company, Vivendi, withdrawn should the album be released with this title.
Jeffries, a former assistant general counsel at CBS and a lawyer at Viacom, says “(i)t is time for Nas and other hip-hop artists to clean up their act and stop flooding the airwaves with the N-word.”
After this, we should expect Jeffries to take similar actions against Dick Gregory for his book “Ni**er”, the estate of the late Richard Pryor for his comedy album “That Ni**er’s Crazy”, the blaxploitation flick “Boss Ni**er” and John Lennon’s estate for his LP “Woman Is The Ni**er Of The World”?
Sorry for the sarcasm but, the assemblyman seems not to care how many times a rapper actually says the word “ni**er” in one of his/her recordings, he just doesn’t want to see it on the cover.
Ni**a please!
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