Nice billboard idiot!! Hope this makes you some money…Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will be on you like stink on Sh*t!!

I think Nas is very ignorant for wearing something like that. Especially at the Grammy’s. I can truly understand his point of view and agree with him on most of his thoughts concerning the word NI&%ER but at the same time I cannot agree with him and Kelis decision to wear that last nite. It was embarrassing, humiliating, uncalled for and an uneducated decision that should have been discussed some more before he just leaped into it. He is only thinking about his opinion but what he needs to remember he or I were not on those busses fighting for freedom and equality. When we came around everything was basically laid out for us already. He has disgraced all of the black leaders who have died for us to be free from that word and have a SOMEWHAT equal life (because we all know racism still exists). Nas and Kelis need prayer.

I have mixed feelings. At the end of the day Nas is a star promoting his album, also entitled Nigger. I need to hear the album and see if the messages are profound enough to correlate to the attire.

Besides, there are alot more people doing alot more shit.

I think both of the outfits are completely IGNORANT!!! Why would you go out labeled with a word that African Americans have to trying to overcome for years now?? Very stupid! And a lame attempt for extra publicity.

let them speak their minds

I completely and totally agree. It is easy for them to run around in that offensive attire because they are not the ones that had to go around and fight against what that word represents. They didn’t have to deal with signs that said “colored only”. They didn’t have to deal with the type of humiliation that many individuals had to deal with on a daily basis. This is such a total lack of respect for all of those who fought those battles so that we would not have to. Now, others don’t have to spend much time denigrating us cause we have members of our own race who will do it for them. I would expect nothing less than this type of ignorant behavior from these two though.

I have mixed feelings on this subject. 1.I do understand what the word meant to our older generation & ancestors, however we focus on the word, rather than the racists who use the word negatively. Rather than focus on the injustices done to our ppl, we concentrate on our younger hip hop generation using it. 2.the grammys was not the place for his album promotion with such attire, i do agree with that.

very well put Sem, couldn’t agree more.

I think what gets lost in translation here is the differnce between being politically correct and whats real. When Sean Bell gets shot 50 times by the police thats not somthing you can do to a person unless they are a nigger that doesnt happen to everyone just us. So if we own the experience why shouldnt we own the word, thats what Nas is saying.
G Bush’s dad did business with the nazis yet know one will ever call him one or questions his actions. Yet Barack Obama gets slandered as a radical muslim by his opponents even though he hes been a baptist for 20 years. The botom line is Id rather a person like Rush Limbough call Barrack a or myself n**ger and show his ignorance than say stuff like halfrican American and get a pass. White people dont want anything to do with that word with good reason, but if your getting stopped by police 6 times more than other races its fair to call a spade a spade its really sad that we are more concerned with a word than with the real underlying perception issue, an issue that we can address if we make enough people uncomfortable. I think the problem is that we allow people to think that just because they dont use terms that arent PC that
they dont have preconceived notions about people based on race.
We all have at one time subscribed to stereotypes about other races even other nationalities of our own race but put the kids to bed before nas come out because hes no hold barred. And im pretty sure that if eminem wore the word cracker i would be thought of as a joke.

bythe way he donated 250000 to Sean Bells family where are the other so called consious rappers

Another sad day in amerikkka where our glorious 500+ year struggle for justice is again reduced to an insulting sound bite to sell an album. Of course, the real blame goes to the capitalist system which places money over people with supporting blame going to the recording industry for profiting off of a people’s suffering with dishonorable mention to Nas and our other artists who find it ok to attempt to profit off of our suffering.

they station should have censored them from wearing it , think about all the young people watching being black or white.and I will say this being black myself it would take a nigger to wear this stupid sh*t. Go some where and get some damn class you and your wife

Later this year Nas will be releasing an album called Ni**er. I think it will be explained at that time the meaning and twisted history behind the word.

I sitting here reading some of these comments and I can’t help but feel that most of you sound really IGNORANT and JUGDEMENTAl and yall really need to stop the maddess!!

To me this is simple, I guess it’s ok for BET & MTV to show niggas all day on video pouring beer on blackwomen and call them all types of foul names, I guess that’s OK,

I guess it’s OK, to have a gold teeth,tatoos, and a chain round your neck, screaming how the snort coke…and kissing another man, calling him you DADDY in your songs and that’s gangster.. Well to me that’s not gangster, being gangster is standing up for what you believe and not caring what the fuck anyone else have to say. I supported Nas from day one, and I will continue.. Keep doing your thing and the hell to what these house niggas has to say

I think it’s kind of silly to say that Nas is doing that for the money. Nas is not that kind of rapper. I’m not sure how i feel about it and thats the same thing he said in an article in XXL. He said he’s deciding how he feels about the word as he makes his album. The point is to make people talk, and thats what your doing.

Everyone that posted a comment are entitled to their beliefs, but which would most of you who disagreed with the couple rather a white man calling us a nigger or one of us doing so when we truly know what an impact and meaning this word has left on our generation. I dont believe the couple is ignorant therefore if they wore that word they must truly have a significant reason behind it. Let them have their own opinion also, is that not their right people? most of us here are black including myself and its degrading how most blacks dont have a problem when other blacks walk around calling women bitches and hoes even women call themselves that but as soon as the n word pops up we then remember what it feels like to be disrespected!!!C’mon people we need to check ourselves and stop judging a book by its cover!!

i totally understand nas”s message here. he realizes that a simple 6 letter word has WAY too much power over african americans as a people. instead of focusing on “nigger” we should focus on”self”. as in putting “self” above a word and not gettin all bent out of shape because of it. to me it seems like black people are using a word as an excuse not to move the fuck on. nas is basically sayin that “this word has no power over me” and i agree 100%