Nas Takes On FOX News & Bill O’Reilly
July 26th, 2008 | Posted in Politics
Rap superstar Nas has delivered a petition to Fox News Channel’s midtown Manhattan HQ, which was signed by 620,127 people who’ve noticed a pattern of racist coverage on FOX.
The rapper joined grassroots groups ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org in protest of FOX News’ racist smears against the Obamas and other Black Americans.
“FOX poisons the country with racist propaganda and tries to call it news,” said Nas.
He caught ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org’s attention with a bitingly intelligent song called “Sly Fox,” which has lyrics like, “Watch what you watchin’, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, Stop sleeping, Start thinking” and “I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth/Not the biased truth/Not the liar’s truth/But the highest truth.”
Check out Nas’ interview and performance of “Sly Fox” on The Colbert Report below.
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Nas SPINs His Way Out Of Controversy
June 20th, 2008 | Posted in Music News
Hip-Hop superstar Nas recently sat down with SPIN magazine to talk about Jay-Z, Bill O’Reilly, and the controversy over his album title. Here’s the scoop:
Why did you wait so long to change the album title if you knew it was going to be a problem?
It was a matter of deciding between changing the name or skipping the major retail outlets I knew wouldn’t carry the record and just selling it through my website and stores that had balls. [Def Jam chairman] L.A. Reid and I had a conversation — I enlightened him and he enlightened me, and he was with me. But I want as many people as possible to hear this, and it was going to be a messy battle that was going to distract from what the album had to say.You’ve drawn heat from some older black leaders for the title. Does that surprise you at all?
It’s a concept album about the word and what lies behind it. I don’t want any respectable member of the black leadership to kidnap me and shoot me. A lot of people from that generation have achieved things and moved on, but I’m still on the grind, going through a lot of shit, and I express it. But a lot of our elders never want to deal with that. I understand, it’s hard. I called the record Nigger, with the “er,” to create a dialogue. You can’t just say, “Why are rappers using this word?” You gotta stick around to find out.Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly denounced your participation in a memorial concert at Virginia Tech as an “insult to the victims” of the shootings in 2007. You made a song about your feud with him.
“Sly Fox.”
