Nas is a douche.

I would also like to take this oppurtunity to say attractive and successful African-American, because it is the name of his album, which makes it okay.

Dear Filter,

lol, Bill O'Reilly, statistician

You guys just need to learn that you take whatever he says and believe the opposite, because he's always going to be wrong. Like Bill Kristol.

Considering record industry sales trends....those numbers reflect similar popularity.

ZachF81: Nas is a douche.

I would also like to take this oppurtunity to say attractive and successful African-American, because it is the name of his album, which makes it okay.

Why is he a douche, assbag? He is one of the few mainstream hip-hop artists to complain about the generification of his genre. He's also talented to boot and seems to generally care about his country.

Miles D Davis Jr.
Why is he a douche, assbag? He is one of the few mainstream hip-hop artists to complain about the generification of his genre. He's also talented to boot and seems to generally care about his country.

His activities during the VT shooting disgusted me, he used it as an oppurtunity to promote himself, make headlines, and attack Fox News. He should have never been invited there anyways.

Are you serious, ZachF81, or are you just making fun of O'Reilly?

I think I finally found out Bill O's Fark account.

fark it!!! We'll do it live!!!

At least someone's taking a stand against Fox. Even if it won't do any good at all.

Billo is acting sanctimonious? And he is demonstratively incorrect in regard to objective facts? I find that so difficult to believe.

Really, why does this even warrant bandwidth? Billo's protests are as formulaic as a Will Farrell film (sorry, just gout out of the Showbiz thread).

the name of his album is untitled. He changed it after people complained about the original title.

Plenty of disastrous albums make platinum.

ZachF81: Nas is a douche.

I would also like to take this oppurtunity to say attractive and successful African-American, because it is the name of his album, which makes it okay.

Look how stupid you are. (new window)

Bill O is kind of a disaster. Maybe that's why he biatches about everything.

timefishblue: Are you serious, ZachF81, or are you just making fun of O'Reilly?

do not feed the trolls

His actions during the shooting? That's a very specific period of time.

dkny: the name of his album is untitled. He changed it after people complained about the original title.

which was going to be attractive and successful African-American.

KidDisaster: Considering record industry sales trends....those numbers reflect similar popularity.

Its not that hard to figure out if they play to the lowest denominator they will get sales, congrats to nas for being stupid enough for people to buy his shiat.

Miles D Davis Jr.: ZachF81: Nas is a douche.

I would also like to take this oppurtunity to say attractive and successful African-American, because it is the name of his album, which makes it okay.

Why is he a douche, assbag? He is one of the few mainstream hip-hop artists to complain about the generification of his genre. He's also talented to boot and seems to generally care about his country.

Yet he does nothing about it and promotes violence as a legitimate way of making money since whitey doesnt care.

Rap used to be the news from the streets now its the streets that try to keep up with the violence portrayed in rap.

p0tat0_dude: ZachF81: Nas is a douche.

I would also like to take this oppurtunity to say attractive and successful African-American, because it is the name of his album, which makes it okay.

Look how stupid you are. (new window)

I honestly can't tell if you're trying to agree with him or disagree with him.

steamingpile: KidDisaster: Considering record industry sales trends....those numbers reflect similar popularity.

Its not that hard to figure out if they play to the lowest denominator they will get sales, congrats to nas for being stupid enough for people to buy his shiat.

Miles D Davis Jr.: ZachF81: Nas is a douche.

I would also like to take this oppurtunity to say attractive and successful African-American, because it is the name of his album, which makes it okay.

Why is he a douche, assbag? He is one of the few mainstream hip-hop artists to complain about the generification of his genre. He's also talented to boot and seems to generally care about his country.

Yet he does nothing about it and promotes violence as a legitimate way of making money since whitey doesnt care.

Rap used to be the news from the streets now its the streets that try to keep up with the violence portrayed in rap.

Wait, what?

Seriously, man, perhaps you should, maybe, and this is just me talking, actually learn what you're talking about, and not just believe what you hear on the teevee, yeah?

Bill O'Reilly makes up facts to bolster his idiotic positions every day. Why is it news this time?

jwhite33: Bill O'Reilly makes up facts to bolster his idiotic positions every day. Why is it news this time?

It's not news...

/ you know the rest

ZachF81: Miles D Davis Jr.

His activities during the VT shooting disgusted me

What did he do during the shootings? It happened pretty early in the day, so I imagine, like most Rap stars, he was asleep in his round bed with his bevy of beetches. Maybe he was at Denny's getting a grand slam?

p0tat0_dude: ZachF81: Nas is a douche.

I would also like to take this oppurtunity to say attractive and successful African-American, because it is the name of his album, which makes it okay.

Look how stupid you are. (new window)

Oh, sorry, I didn't realise the record label wimped out (who would have thought?) and officially titled it "untitled."

VT was shot?? Oh my God, is he alright?

februarymakeup: Seriously, man, perhaps you should, maybe, and this is just me talking, actually learn what you're talking about, and not just believe what you hear on the teevee, yeah?

I do know what Im talking about, hip hop is to blame for black culture being set back 30 years and erasing 20 years of gains.

This dude is a jackass... how many of you have actually heard the album? I have, and its deep as hell. Nas is intelligent, and yea a little cocky, but most famous artists are. F!@#$ Fox!

steamingpile: februarymakeup: Seriously, man, perhaps you should, maybe, and this is just me talking, actually learn what you're talking about, and not just believe what you hear on the teevee, yeah?

I do know what Im talking about, hip hop is to blame for black culture being set back 30 years and erasing 20 years of gains.

In what way? Music doesn't set ANYTHING back. Art is reactionary, despite the claims of artists and handwringers (hey, that's you!) to the contrary. People like to have it around to blame it for changes that they find adverse, but there is no evidence that this is the case. People listen to violent, hateful music because they themselves feel violent and hateful. Nobody listens to music they disagree with. Nice try though, son.

februarymakeup: In what way? Music doesn't set ANYTHING back. Art is reactionary, despite the claims of artists and handwringers (hey, that's you!) to the contrary. People like to have it around to blame it for changes that they find adverse, but there is no evidence that this is the case. People listen to violent, hateful music because they themselves feel violent and hateful. Nobody listens to music they disagree with. Nice try though, son.

Every one has to have bling on everything they wear/own, argument over.

Rap used to serve a purpose and was a good musical outlet, now its complete shiat and is the same crap over and over again.

steamingpile: februarymakeup: In what way? Music doesn't set ANYTHING back. Art is reactionary, despite the claims of artists and handwringers (hey, that's you!) to the contrary. People like to have it around to blame it for changes that they find adverse, but there is no evidence that this is the case. People listen to violent, hateful music because they themselves feel violent and hateful. Nobody listens to music they disagree with. Nice try though, son.

Every one has to have bling on everything they wear/own, argument over.

Rap used to serve a purpose and was a good musical outlet, now its complete shiat and is the same crap over and over again.

Uh...no.

Again, that answers nothing. So people wear things differently now so...rap...must be...poisoning youth? You wanna come on back and explain how that connects there?

It still serves a purpose. The same purpose as all art--to communicate whatever it is that the artist feels they have to say to an audience that wants to hear it. That was the purpose when Homer recited the Odessey, it was the purpose when Van Gogh painted what he saw at night, it was the purpose when Proust went on about cookies, and it's the purpose when Nas raps. Nobody is listening to it and deciding to do what he's rapping about--they're listening to it because they feelt aht what he has to say reflects something about the world, whether theirs or a world they feel exists for someone else.

Bill O'Reilly has obviously never listened to Illmatic.

damn it Bill. your making take the side of a rapper

That's some of the worst trolling I've ever seen.

steamingpile: februarymakeup: Seriously, man, perhaps you should, maybe, and this is just me talking, actually learn what you're talking about, and not just believe what you hear on the teevee, yeah?

I do know what Im talking about, hip hop is to blame for black culture being set back 30 years and erasing 20 years of gains.

That, and video games! They corrupt your mind!

Welp, this thread has convinced me. Off to the record store to pick up a copy.

/The stuff I've heard so far has been excellent

februarymakeup: Again, that answers nothing. So people wear things differently now so...rap...must be...poisoning youth? You wanna come on back and explain how that connects there?

It still serves a purpose. The same purpose as all art--to communicate whatever it is that the artist feels they have to say to an audience that wants to hear it. That was the purpose when Homer recited the Odessey, it was the purpose when Van Gogh painted what he saw at night, it was the purpose when Proust went on about cookies, and it's the purpose when Nas raps. Nobody is listening to it and deciding to do what he's rapping about--they're listening to it because they feelt aht what he has to say reflects something about the world, whether theirs or a world they feel exists for someone else.

They do use it as a blueprint, people see all the crap in videos and decide they do need to go to the rent to own rims places and ends up putting them in debt for years to come and ruins their credit. Its flaunting that is killing people thinking they need the next and bestest items to keep up. The music doenst exist in the way describe at all, I have seen it from both sides and they are full of shiat the times they are perceived being hassled was because they were somewhere that put them under suspicion. Its crap thinking that you get hassled just cause you are black or people do not care about you because they are black.

steamingpile: februarymakeup: Again, that answers nothing. So people wear things differently now so...rap...must be...poisoning youth? You wanna come on back and explain how that connects there?

It still serves a purpose. The same purpose as all art--to communicate whatever it is that the artist feels they have to say to an audience that wants to hear it. That was the purpose when Homer recited the Odessey, it was the purpose when Van Gogh painted what he saw at night, it was the purpose when Proust went on about cookies, and it's the purpose when Nas raps. Nobody is listening to it and deciding to do what he's rapping about--they're listening to it because they feelt aht what he has to say reflects something about the world, whether theirs or a world they feel exists for someone else.

They do use it as a blueprint, people see all the crap in videos and decide they do need to go to the rent to own rims places and ends up putting them in debt for years to come and ruins their credit. Its flaunting that is killing people thinking they need the next and bestest items to keep up. The music doenst exist in the way describe at all, I have seen it from both sides and they are full of shiat the times they are perceived being hassled was because they were somewhere that put them under suspicion. Its crap thinking that you get hassled just cause you are black or people do not care about you because they are black.

What do you mean "you've seen it from both sides"? Because your comments do nothing except convince me that you do, in fact, "know" everything you "know" about this particular subject from believing things that people tell you. Of COURSE there are people who hassle black people because they're black. Denying the existence of racism (and, in your comment, racist behavior) is something that not even the most benighted teevee jockey could come up with.

steamingpile: februarymakeup: Again, that answers nothing. So people wear things differently now so...rap...must be...poisoning youth? You wanna come on back and explain how that connects there?

It still serves a purpose. The same purpose as all art--to communicate whatever it is that the artist feels they have to say to an audience that wants to hear it. That was the purpose when Homer recited the Odessey, it was the purpose when Van Gogh painted what he saw at night, it was the purpose when Proust went on about cookies, and it's the purpose when Nas raps. Nobody is listening to it and deciding to do what he's rapping about--they're listening to it because they feelt aht what he has to say reflects something about the world, whether theirs or a world they feel exists for someone else.

They do use it as a blueprint, people see all the crap in videos and decide they do need to go to the rent to own rims places and ends up putting them in debt for years to come and ruins their credit. Its flaunting that is killing people thinking they need the next and bestest items to keep up. The music doenst exist in the way describe at all, I have seen it from both sides and they are full of shiat the times they are perceived being hassled was because they were somewhere that put them under suspicion. Its crap thinking that you get hassled just cause you are black or people do not care about you because they are black.

The music reflects society not the other way around shiat for brains.

Selling 187,000 copies of an album is a disater?

NAS reminds us all again why we shouldn't use that word by making it the title of his album.

Now That's What I Call a Taco!: Welp, this thread has convinced me. Off to the record store to pick up a copy.

/The stuff I've heard so far has been excellent

Excellent and gutter music in the same sentence?

Nas is a hip-hop legend and has always been one of the few mainstream rappers to actually have some kind of message and lyrical talent. Everyone hating on him probably never listened to his music and just assumes he's just another gangsta rapper.

The production on this album is solid and the lyrics are as engaging as you would expect from Mr. Nasir Jones. Highly recommended.

vonster: NAS reminds us all again why we shouldn't use that word by making it the title of his album.

Please, like this is the worst double standard we've ever encountered in American society. Get over yourself. White people should just accept the fact that they shouldn't use the n-word while black people can.

Good publicity for Nas. Way to go Bill-O.

/gonna download it first, tho...

Farkin' Thing Sucks!

luckybastard: Good publicity for Nas. Way to go Bill-O.

Yeah, all those near-death geriatrics watching the Factor are gonna go download the album on iTunes now.

I know most of those words, but that headline makes no sense.

februarymakeup: What do you mean "you've seen it from both sides"? Because your comments do nothing except convince me that you do, in fact, "know" everything you "know" about this particular subject from believing things that people tell you. Of COURSE there are people who hassle black people because they're black. Denying the existence of racism (and, in your comment, racist behavior) is something that not even the most benighted teevee jockey could come up with.

I have lived in the ghetto, I have been at peoples houses when raids happen, I have transported drugs, all in my past.

The ones that got farked with were ones that acted out or did stupid shiat while they were doing something illegal, a lot of them would have ended up as fark headlines if it existed back then.

One guy actually said cops were being racist cause they were hassling him about music at 3am, I ended up leaving the house then he got arrested a little bit later cause he wouldnt turn the music down and yet somehow it was still the cops racist attitude for his arrest. I have no doubt there are jar head asshole cops, I have played on cop softball teams so I have met some first hand, but to say every time you get stopped or a cop asks you a question/stops you is racism is just complete bullshiat. Maybe you were just being an ass, take responsibility for your asshole-dom and get the panties out of your ass.

tical: The music reflects society not the other way around shiat for brains.

It used to be that way, now music is shaping the society in the hood.

Fieldy Snuts: Selling 187,000 copies of an album is a disater?

Thats all he sold? Jesus that is pretty bad for a top seller, kinda shows how bad the music industry is right now.