Premo on Nas Album.

[Holstar]

"I don't know why they're making a big deal," Premier said. "When I was coming up my parents had albums like That nigger's Crazy (Richard Pryor), Sly and the Family Stone had "Don't Call Me nigger, Whitey." No one made a big deal about that.

"I just hope it's a banging album, if you're going to use that title. If it was up to me to do an album called nigger, believe me it's gonna sound just like the title, beats-wise, lyric-wise, content-wise-everything," he added. "As long as its banging I'm gonna applaud him. If it sounds wack, I'm going to be disappointed and diss him like anything else because I have that right as a fan. I'm a fan of Nas so let's hope he bangs it out."

(off sohh.com)

[rob_one]

His Holiness Premo Has Spake. Thus, It Is Gospel, And Lo, There Shall Be A Nas Album Of Astounding Dopeness And Light.

He has a point about the album titles though. Roll on "Nigger"!

[Blizzard]

He has a point about the album titles though. Roll on "Nigger"!

 

[rob_one]

Nas wants to call his next album Nigger.

[Malcom E.K.K.S]

He has a point about the album titles though. Roll on "Nigger"!

Eish bru, I don't think that's something' smart to say, do you? 

[Capt Schti]

I think that's fair from Primo.   

Creativity is a very dangerous thing, the balancing act between confidence and arrogance; standing your ground and being stubborn.
You can't survive on your own in the creative field (don't ask how, but I know). You need peers, that is peole who are as creative and as open as you are, to give you advise and critique and help you up your game.
Lucas had Spielberg who had Scorcese who had Coppola. Needless to say 70's is the goledn age of film.   
Most of the times you don't even have to be in direct contact for the influence to happen.

Nas is too creative for his own good. In this current rap climate, who's really qualified to tell him what to do. Or inspire him to lift his game. No rappers, no producers, that's why his albums are A+ lyrics, A+ message A+ concepts, but the beats, hooks even sequencing are subpar. He really needs a creative counterpart, not hottest producer now, not a label suit, not these subpar rappers. He needs a Madlib.   

Incidentally, that is the problem with the South African Hip Hop scene...but I'll weigh on it some other time.                           

[rob_one]

Eish bru, I don't think that's something' smart to say, do you? 

It's the bloody name of the album! What, precisely, would you like me to call it?

Nas is too creative for his own good. In this current rap climate, who's really qualified to tell him what to do. Or inspire him to lift his game. No rappers, no producers, that's why his albums are A+ lyrics, A+ message A+ concepts, but the beats, hooks even sequencing are subpar. He really needs a creative counterpart, not hottest producer now, not a label suit, not these subpar rappers. He needs a Madlib. 

 

Not always though. He can be amazing and dope, but he can also be ridiculous. He's not infallible. And he's often been at his best when teamed with dope producers like Premo or Large Pro.

[Bobby Banks]

I think that's fair from Primo.   

Creativity is a very dangerous thing, the balancing act between confidence and arrogance; standing your ground and being stubborn.
You can't survive on your own in the creative field (don't ask how, but I know). You need peers, that is peole who are as creative and as open as you are, to give you advise and critique and help you up your game.
Lucas had Spielberg who had Scorcese who had Coppola. Needless to say 70's is the goledn age of film.   
Most of the times you don't even have to be in direct contact for the influence to happen.

Nas is too creative for his own good. In this current rap climate, who's really qualified to tell him what to do. Or inspire him to lift his game. No rappers, no producers, that's why his albums are A+ lyrics, A+ message A+ concepts, but the beats, hooks even sequencing are subpar. He really needs a creative counterpart, not hottest producer now, not a label suit, not these subpar rappers. He needs a Madlib.   

Incidentally, that is the problem with the South African Hip Hop scene...but I'll weigh on it some other time.                           

very interesting take on this.

[Malcom E.K.K.S]

It's the bloody name of the album! What, precisely, would you like me to call it?

N****r....

[Bobby Banks]

It's the bloody name of the album! What, precisely, would you like me to call it?

N****r....

Lol...

[churchofthe latterdayLatte]

I must say I'm with Rob on that score (stanger things have happenned)...I think that' the part of the whole political twist to the title...to provoke this argument...especially now that sooooo many white kids are into hip hop...what happens?

[Tonnes]

It's the bloody name of the album! What, precisely, would you like me to call it?

N****r....

Haha

[Blizzard]

Eish bru, I don't think that's something' smart to say, do you? 

It's the bloody name of the album! What, precisely, would you like me to call it?

Rob, you know that its not that simplistic......but yeah call it whatever you want!!!!!!!

[Capt Schti]

Eish bru, I don't think that's something' smart to say, do you? 

It's the bloody name of the album! What, precisely, would you like me to call it?

Nas is too creative for his own good. In this current rap climate, who's really qualified to tell him what to do. Or inspire him to lift his game. No rappers, no producers, that's why his albums are A+ lyrics, A+ message A+ concepts, but the beats, hooks even sequencing are subpar. He really needs a creative counterpart, not hottest producer now, not a label suit, not these subpar rappers. He needs a Madlib. 

 

Not always though. He can be amazing and dope, but he can also be ridiculous. He's not infallible. And he's often been at his best when teamed with dope producers like Premo or Large Pro.

That's exactly what I'm saying, he needs a creative counterpart (like Premo or Large Pro) but we know he is not going to be working with them any time soon, that's why I used Madlib, otherwise the argument would been stuck in the past, not progressive.  
I'm writer, what appeals to me is the process, the energy, the exploration of new thought. Not every idea will come off (I know he is not infallible) but, dude, if they are two mc's who I think are far superior writers, so much that I don't compare their writing to other Mc's but authors and screenplay writers, it's Nas and Pro Kid (who also suffres the same problem, ill ryhmes, ehh songs)

And I'm not even a huge fan of Nas.                  
      

[rob_one]

N****r....

No.

If Nas sees it fit to call his album Nigger, then I will damn well refer to it as Nigger. I'm well aware of the awful racial baggage attached to it, but frankly it is a word used so often in hip-hop that I'm really surprised people don't like the idea of using it in an album name. As Premo says, no-one kicked up as much fuss about Sly Stone when he did the same thing.

I don't ever refer to anybody as a nigger. I don't use the word in my raps, or in conversation. But frankly, I refuse to use asterisks in the word simply not to offend people, when it's not even my call.