Feb 10 2008
WIFT - NAS has finally lost it!
Grammy night people usually put on their best for the red carpet but there is always someone out to “try” and make a scene. This year it was NAS and Kelis.
I don’t know what the point that NAS, his crew, and his wife Kelis are trying to make by walking around with shirts that say “NI@@ER” but at this moment I’m not trying to hear it. I’m writing this in real time as I’m watching the grammys so he may have some point…at this moment though, the shirts are tacky. This clown was stumbling over his words, trying to explain the shirts on CNN…”you, me we are all being taken advantage of”…whatever. The older and older I get the less and less I can get with these hip-hop cats. I bet MLK is rolling over in his grave right now…
NAS and Kellis on the Shirts:
Rapper Nas raised a few eyebrows backstage at the Grammys on Sunday night by wearing a T-shirt with the N-word on it, which also is the title of his new album, out April 22.
“Hip hop music (has) been catching a lot of flak. We use the word in our music,” Nas told reporters in the print-reporters room. “And for the last year it’s just been really crazy, the word thing. It’s confusing for me as a black man, so since us rappers (are) getting the blame, I wanted to talk about it, and express myself.”
In addition, Nas was motivated by the arrest of his wife, singer Kelis, in Miami Beach outside of her hotel last March for shouting at undercover police officers.
“There’s no better time,” he said. “(Kelis and I) gotta go to trial just for hanging outside, getting arrested for just being us, so that’s kind of why I probably had to stick with the title, ’cause for a lot of people, they experience racial s—, they want to sweep it under the rug. ‘Don’t say anything, it’ll go away.’ That never happens. And as much as I’d like for this word to go away, the reality of it is so strong, people try to ignore it, but you can’t.”
Added Kelis at his side: “The word’s not what’s important, it’s the premise behind it. And it’s like Nas, at the end of the day, whether we say it or not, it doesn’t change the fact that I get treated like one.”
Sometimes people will treat you a certain way based on nothing but your outward appearance but you are also judged by the content of your character, your actions, and what you say. Maybe the shirts should have also said in small fine print and quotes, “Let’s take one small step forward and two big steps backward”. It is amazing what people will do to sell an album.
