Nas Unveils New Album Cover & Video For "Be A Nigger Too"
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Nas and Rik Cordero held a special event last night to unveil the new video for "Be A Nigger Too". The black and white video was directed by Cordero and features a reflective Nas. The video has not be aired publicly yet, but Billboard published a play by play in their article today:
YHTNews was on the scene and videoed the full event. It's currently on youTube in 6 parts, but I won't be surprised if it gets taken down by the end of the day. But, since Prince isn't in the vids, they stand a chance of staying up I guess."Be A Nigger Too" Screening:Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6:Billboard report
The treatment for the black-and-white video, directed by Rik Cordero, features Nas looking at his reflection through a mirror and rapping about racism, politics and religion, among other things, while images of people of different races sporadically appear throughout. "We all black within, okay / we all African, okay," the Queensbridge rapper rhymes over a piano-heavy beat.
Towards the middle of the video, a scene of what appears to be a white slave owner pointing a gun at a black male slave emerges, right before the song shifts into its chorus: "They like to strangle niggers / blaming niggers / hanging niggers / still you wanna be a nigger too?"
At the end, Nas, still facing the mirror, says, "F#ck you. You had it all and you threw it all away."Nas also unveiled new artwork for the album cover that depicts Nas' back covered in lash marks. He may not be able to officially call the album Nigger, but he says the cover, "speaks for itself. It says 'nigger' real loud."
YHTNews was on the scene and videoed the full event. It's currently on youTube in 6 parts, but I won't be surprised if it gets taken down by the end of the day. But, since Prince isn't in the vids, they stand a chance of staying up I guess."Be A Nigger Too" Screening:Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6:Billboard report
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