Nas Interview with SPIN


In a recent interview with SPIN Magazine for their July issue Nas talks about how the decision to drop his album title came about, his Fox News song and his level of political activism and why he's no longer doing his reality show.

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.



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