Nas

why?
I know.
but why?
WHy change the name now so close to the album dropping.


"Record stores are gonna have a problem in this day and time selling a record with that title," he said. "Who knows what that title will be? It was important to me to let the fans know what the album would be musically. ... Everybody is trying to stop the title. It's just people being scared of what's real. Somebody is trying to open up dialogue for people to talk. People that's high up [who aren't] really understanding what I'm doing, are scared. They're scared for reasons I understand, but the fans gotta know either way: This is the same album. The content is the same, the direction is the same, the message is gonna be everything I intended it to be musically.

"[The title] kind of comes off as something that can be disrespectful," he added. "Our older black people can take it the wrong way. Some non-blacks can take it the wrong way, and it becomes a thing that becomes controversial in all the wrong ways. I accept that. I'm here to do music. I'm here to rap about what I feel and what makes sense to me."



Well im not a music buisness expert but i feel that sometimes that risk should be taken . How many people that we feel are great at what they do alot of the times have controversies surrounding them. When you take a big step like that of course theres going to be some cracks on the ground and there will be people who will kick you to the curb but in the end there will also be those who will pick you up from that same curb and take those steps with you. Nas im still copping the album. I just wanted the album to come out with the title you intended on using.