Nas' much discussed self titled CD opened at Number One yesterday, selling 187,000 copies and taking its place on top of the Billboard charts one place above Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III. (Maybe Hip Hop Isn't Dead should be his next album title.) My story about Nas and the N word from Sunday's A & E section is here.
Nas was on last night with Stephen Colbert, who said of the rapper "he has street cred, but I have gated community cred." Nas, for his part, dubbed Colbert "a gangsta host." The two bonded over their mutual obsession with Bill O'Reilly, who Nas called "worse than any gangsta rapper".The MC talked about how the word he intended to title his album "scares people - it has a horrific origination," and "a history to it that's terrible," and Colbert pointed out that if you spell the word backwards it sounds sort of like "Reagan."
Here's the clips of Colbert's bit on the Nas' Fox News protest. Later, Colbert made the point that rap lyrics do cause violence because "I blame Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' every time it snows."
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