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June 9, 2008

Nas - Be A Nigger Too




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Thoughts on the video?

The new album comes to stores July 15th

55 Comments so far

1.
SONNI wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

US BLACK PEOPLE SHUD MAKE THIS #1 EVERYWHERE EVEN ON 106…IZ THAT EVEN POSSIBLE???? LETS C!!!

2.
C Franco wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

I’m looking forward to listening. Nigel, I added the link to my site and gave you props. Check it out: Hip-Hop+Politics = Hiptics

3.
SAM FROM THE BAY
SAM FROM THE BAY wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

ONE WORD: POWERFUL!!!

4.
cypha7 wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

this wasn’t no music video, this was a damn movie….nas is definitely innovative, this should mark him down as one of the greatest alongside big, pac and jay…..i like this vibe that nas got goin, apparantly nas is the only meaningful mc left….real talk…

5.
uk_standup wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

Real niggers of all race stand up for some real shit!!!

This is some real shit ladies and gentlemen.

6.
nik wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

wow….not WOW!…just wow…a thinking, wow

Do your thing Nas, they are going to hate you, but do your thing

7.
it was ok wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

1 word booooooooooooooooooooo!

8.
Jay wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Dope this will never b on mtv or bet

that acapella in the beginnings was dope
“the nerve of yall 2 call escobar racist nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga hatred”

9.
Fuck Nas! wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

1 word… Racist!!!

Yeah fuck it! I’m gonna hate and so what. Lets see someone release “Be a cracka too” if white people released that we’d be shot down and labelled racist. How the fuck is Nas helping? This is reigniting the issue of racism. You’re getting a black president, be still you wont let it be! How can the world move on if people making shit like this? It’s fuckin irrelevant, that shit in the video doesn’t happen like that anymore, he fuck exhaggerated everthing! Any decent person black,white, yellow any fuckin colour or race will see it’s irrelevant and not needed in todays society. It’s just creating more anger.

10.
eny wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

the greatest, we should be paying attention to this rather then all that materialistic ,kill a nigga shit these execs think we need, NAS is the man. lovein this.learn somethin,niggas.

11.
Clipz
Clipz wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

Incredible.

12.
nik wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

@ Fuck Nas!

If you watched that video and only received anger then you need to meditate on that within yourself and find why YOU are angry.

I watched the video and received a sense of unity, covering the racist reality of Blacks(which probably infused your anger), at the same time, showing the likeness and similarities of all races in this ‘nigger’ reality, ie., the ignorance we all share, the backwardness that we all have bought into, the ignorance of our interdependence, etc as it relates to racism, the government, religion, dissension, and everything else.

Get a grip…

13.
REALspit wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Classic Video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nas does his own thing, you gotta respect it.
Goin against the grain and remainin sucker free

14.
ali b wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

man 15 july album in store

15.
???? wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

Is this Nas “We are the world” type of song?

16.
uk_standup wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

“anytime we mention are history or position dey call it reverse racism” nas - n.i.g.g.e.r the slave and the master

this is a history lesson for alot of mofos who lack the initiative to seek the truth on there own.

How much media and documentation is there about hitler and the nazi persicution of jewish people, but nobody wants to talk about black history. Its important to understand to insure history doesn’t repeat itself.

Racism is still prevalant in todays society around the world. I think racism is just ignorance, people fear what they dont understand i think its important people study and discuss this and get to the bottom of the issue it shouldnt be a taboo subject.

17.
Pounce wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

LMAO at #9,

“You’re getting a black president, be still you wont let it be!”

We are not getting a black president. People get gifts for x-mas and their b-days. We are (and I say we as a country not just black people) are considering a black president because hes a candidate. And he was elected not given to “us”. Black people make up 12-14% of this countries population. Out of that 12-14%, over 70% of the men over 18 are in jail or have a fellony and cannot vote. Out of that 70% 63% of them are their for non violent drug charges.

I say that to point out that white people are voting for the black president that you say is being given to us. But before I lose you with to many stats that you dont care about or refuse to believe is true I want to say even though your entire mindset is questionable when it comes to race because you meant every work you typed lol. I dont hold your comments against you my dude, your probably young or just been misinformed due to a sheltered environment and private schooling provided by your parents. Either way its all good.

As far as the video of course all the stuff in their doesnt actually happen but look at Rodney King getting beat in what… 1992 out here in Cali. And then just recently Sean Bell getting shot 50x in NY and cops getting off. Not to mention all the shit that took place between those 15 yrs. You cant say stuff in the video doesnt happen anymore just cause niggas arent getting hung from trees and sprayed in the middle of streets with fire hoses. Those are the times your pops probably calls the good old days lol.

18.
Stevon313detroitshouldhavewon. wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

NaS went hard on this one…. it inspires me to become great at anything i do… and to not take my opportunity that i have for granted,, niggas need to step up foreal, 19 years old got a soul of an old man…

Real A State

19.
Courtsidelive wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

I’ve been a Nas fan since like forever, but how da fuck am i suppose to relate to this? As a wigger from eastern europe?
Is it realy that bad in the US?? What is he trying to achieve?

20.
FLAHOMIE wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

NAS KEEPS IT CONTROVERSIAL…..LMAO @ NAS CALLIN EM A CRACKA WIGGA

21.
Ahijah wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Nas was bang on with this

22.
pr0t0typ3
pr0t0typ3 wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

Pounce SONNED!! #9 who summed himself up in his #1st word … Racist!!

23.
Tre Houston wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

Beautiful. It just works the right message at the right time…we are all in this together, ya dig?

Tre

24.
Time To Get ILL wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

shit.. im speechless. that was some real deep thought provoking stuff. he caused an uproar with this title nigger, but atleast he can back it up with meaningful lyrics and a great video
in my opinion he should keep the title nigger
its a shame how we are still bound down by oppresion and we dont even know it, nas is just advocating for us
and i love it
if only more teens like myself would listen to this we could learn something and make change

25.
shine95 wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

Hip Hop is Dead seem like it ain’t got nothin on this album. Nas is right, he on some bigger issues now. and his past joints for this album so far got that epic feel to it. The shit sound epic. He got that effect like when the I Am and Stillmatic album came out. and that shit he was spittin in the beginning acapella it’s on some illmatic 1st album rhymes. Definite cop. I don’t see no other album this year that’s worth the wait so far. shit is epic the hero joint too.

26.
DJ A.n.T.
DJ A.n.T. wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

FUEGO!!!!!

27.
2cool4u wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

nas the video was GREAT this is hip hop; if not this is real!

ps. i was going too write black power but i have something more important 2 say it good to see artist “rappers” do things like this be real say what u wont too say.

ps.”He said he never do it for the love of it,always for the money so if the check ain’t cut right, I say GOD didn’t cut him RIGHT”?

28.
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29.
Brooklin3 wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

Thats Real……love it….eye opener for people that listen to all that other bullshit

30.
wreck415 wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

#9 1ST OF ALL DIS IS A HIPHOP WEBSITE IF UR WHITE U SHOULDNT BE ON THIS SITE AT ALL HOMIE TAKE YA CRACKA ASS TO MTV.COM

31.
ignite mindz wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

that intro is amazing, thats the nas im tryin to hear, best verse ive heard in forever. hes been too sloppy lately, yall know what i mean. he’s been a little sloppy since God’s Son but hell always be my favorite MC. That hero joint is dope tho

32.
nvrmind wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

props to rik cordero on the video.
three21 productions has been hot lately, with all the roots videos and all.

GUERILLA FILMMAKERS STAND UP!
lol that just means you gotta camera with no money.

Im still gonna burn nas’s album cus he changed the name of the album, proving to me that he holds sales above artistic integrity.
this song and video are strong tho.

33.
iWonder wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

# 21 that’s some real talk for a young kid, u are gonna be something one day

34.
Yedigggg wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

# 9 “we still won’t let it be”? Dog, for 400 years there were WHITE presidents during the time yall still had us tied up like some f*ckin animals, for what? White people don’t have to drop “Be A Cracker Too” because yall have done enough of that without it being said since the days of slavery homeboy. Nas is not promoting racism or attempting to make blacks hate whites or whites hate blacks, All he’s doing is making this a topic of discussion for the world just to see who’s really uncomfortable about race conversations. Unfortunately, u seem rather bitter my dude.

For u to even make a comparison of whites making “Be A Cracker” is a facet of racism right there, just because you’d be making a video to oppose what a black man has done. Nas didn’t do that to oppose any white man, he did it to speak to the world and enlighten u ignorant ma’f*ckaz that we’re all equal no matter what color we are.

Now why don’t u go watch the video again with an open mind and grasp its real concept, and then re-think what u said before u continue to make a mockery of yourself on this goddam website my NIGGA!

P.S. - The video was hardbody. Nas is 1 of the greatest ever.

35.
Dee wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

wow… NAS is gonna have me buying an album

36.
Benny from the Bronx wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

now thats what the fuck i’m talking about.if you hate on this video…………fuck you for real.

37.
REal wrote on June 9th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

great vid

38.
iWonder wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 12:32 am

#21
thats really talk, coming from a teen like u, i see u gonna make change one day

39.
iWonder wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 12:33 am

#21
thats real talk, coming from a teen like u, i see u gonna make change one day

40.
BigYuth007 wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 12:51 am

Hip hop will never be the same after this album.
this is “the shit for ages” (Nas)
Daaaaaamn NIGGA

41.
SEAN FALYON wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 1:06 am

This was real and for the people who cant see dude is using the word NIGGER pertaining to ignorance amongst all races then you’re a fool. All races/cultures have taken on some form of oppression even if its because of ones own ignorance…im glad dude made such a great visual to compliment the powerful lyrics.

42.
smokes3aday
smokes3aday wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 2:18 am

fuck all haters…you bitch…stop the hate yall know naz is the shit…if he wants NIGGER as the name of is album fuck it ..all yall bitches dont have anything else to do but hate …get money …stop watching about the next man ..fags

43.
durrty wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 8:00 am

Whats up wit dis NAS dude,nigga fuckin wake up we way past slavery time.Im tired of listening ti dis nigga wit nigga here nigga der raps..jeez

44.
Real-talk wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 8:18 am

whoever said Fuck Nas, Fuck you too. This is a fact, this is a history, why do ppl get mad when the history is being told????? This is a classic video. Much respect to Nas keep doing your thing bro. Ppl please understand this is not being racist at all, hip hop is art form of expression, hip hop doen’t have to be in a box, hip hop is also history teller as well. So give respect when respect is due.

45.
Mdot718 wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 8:30 am

Powerful, Revolutionary, Amazing…..Hopefully they dont make him change it..

46.
Sin City wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 9:09 am

Very Powerful video. It’s too bad that wouldn’t see the time of day unless they edit it like crazy. MTV would quicker show it than BET and that’s sad.

47.
jay wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 9:20 am

yall need to come down…. its just music

hes making this song controversial so he can sell, he even admitted this himself

controversy sells… hes not trying to stop, start or do anything about racism, hes just a rapper….

but you can cleary see its already causing controversy on this board

which means = he will sell alot

48.
M wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Nas is a intelligent black man and the video is classic

49.
BK wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

This here is a work of a genius. Nas u dun did it again another classic video by the GOD-SON himself

50.
BLuntCitY
BLuntCitY wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

nas is sayin some real shit… i think he tryin to do what tupac couldnt finish

51.
G. Lindz wrote on June 10th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

Yo 4real this bout da realest thing to hit the streets yet. I see comments bout its racist and he just doin it to start controversy and yaddy yaddy yah….da song pretty much sayin that everybody wanna use da word nigga but when it come down to it, nobody wanna be a nigga but niggas.(dats what we was labeled as from the beginnin) As a people we came from the bottom and since we movin up a lil bit we done took that as a word of endearment between each other cause wont nobody in the US treated as “niggers” were except the people who actually risked their lives to touch the soil of this land. and to this day things still are not equal. So if you been treated like a nigga or go through things niggas do (bein looked at a certain way cuz of how u dress, strugglin to pay bills, cant afford school, surrounded by people in da same situation just tryna live) ima call you a nigga cause you just like me …..(Excuse the slang and Ebonics) NIGGAS

52.
kingjew wrote on June 11th, 2008 at 2:11 am

this video made no sense at all . he is talking bad about us jews anti Semitic . nas can kiss my ass he lyrics are senseless

53.
ti wrote on June 11th, 2008 at 9:31 am

@53 Kingjew

the video would make sense if you bothered to watch it. Nas didn’t insult any jewish person; in fact, the lyrics are: “to all my kike niggas, spic niggers, Guinea niggers, chink niggers”. There, are you alone? No. Nas (regardless if he’s doing it for the $$ or whatever) is saying that all minorities were and are oppressed and silenced in history.

The fact that you got angry because of a lyric that applied to EVERYBODY is amazing because this just shows that you didn’t understand the message. You’re probably never going to read this comment, but I hope you’ll understand that sometimes words follow one another…this is called a sentence. When you have a couple of these, maybe you’ll be able to comprehend his “senseless lyrics”.

As long as we continue to make such ignorant (and arrogant) comments, we all might as well be back constructing railroads, being slaves, put in labor camps and hunted down like animals. We need to stand up for ourselves and not let petty issues divide our races from within. Only then we can unify ourselves as a whole and work together as one race of the human kind.

54.
Real Talk wrote on June 25th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Nas, did his thing on this song but it sounds as if he condoning saying the word nigger(nigga). I have to listen to the rest of the album, we need to chose another word besides the word the white men gave us to demean us. I don’t think it would be so hard to erase that word from our vocabulary when refering to each other. We can use another word to refer to one another!!

55.
BiG D wrote on July 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm

First off I just want to say that if this is the course his new album is going to take then like it or not, for better or for worse this is the John Lennon of the new generation. If it’s one thing we lack it is a voice for our generation, and a song like this is it. Like it or not people we are in this together. Ill bet everything I have (which isn’t much) that most everyone on this board is’nt rich and/or a minority, so like I said we are in this together. This song is about black people just as much as it’s about Jews, Italians, Asians, or any other minority for that matter. This is a truly great song with a profounf meaning not found in most music let alone hip-hop.

Hey #30 Wreck415, by you saying that #9 is white and should not be on this board shows that you listened to the song just about as much as #9 did. If you know anything about Nas or even listened to his music you would know that he hates racism of ANY kind, even toward white people. And being a Jew, I was not in the least offended by his use of the word “Kike” because I understand why he was using it. As a matter of fact, being a Jew growing up in the piece of shit racist south I’ve gotten my fair share of bigotry, but i just look ahead because some people will neve rchange and you can’t let them get you down. Just thought I would throw that out there. Also, anyone who is offended by this song needs to open their mind, not just their ears.

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