2008 Annual Grammy Awards
As you probably know Kelis & Nas attended the Grammy Awards yesterday, rocking a somewhat controversial outfit. Below is Nas’ explanation to the whole situation, given to rollingstone.com (images from the event, and some other Grammy related events will fallow)
When the awards were finally underway, Nas strolled backstage into the press room and caused a stir by wearing a black T-shirt with silver lettering that read Nigger, which is of course the name of his next album. “This album [will hopefully] open some awareness in our community and everywhere. We felt like shaking it up with something real,” he explained. Nas acknowledged that the album title and his shirt (wife Kelis was wearing a matching black tank) will cause people to “go crazy about it. But it’s cool … It’s the perfect time for it. I’m thirty-four years old — a husband, a father, a brother, a son — and me and my wife have to go on trial for just hanging outside, just being us,” he added, referring to Kelis’ March 2007 arrest in Miami Beach for allegedly screaming racial obscenities at two cops. “So that is why I had to stick with the title. A lot of people experience racial shit and they want to sweep it until the rug. As much as I’d like for this word to go away, the reality of it is so strong.” Don’t expect to see the couple’s reality show air anytime soon. They nixed it after not being happy with the first episode. Nas said, “It was boring, so we said no.”
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—Feb 11, 06:44 PM, by Patryk, #,
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i just luv her ideas on her style
— averdel · Mar 10, 12:04 AM · #