Shortly after the Virginia Tech shootings, in an attempt to lift the spirits of a beleaguered and shell-shocked student body, several mainstream performance artists were invited to the campus to put on a show. Amongst them was Nas, who like most rappers in his genre, is known for particularly violent lyrics.
Of course, Fox News Channel and their predilection for sensationalistic stories to frighten and shock their viewers, covered the story, and Nas was understandably irritated, as was reflected in the lyrics to his recent response music video, Sly Fox.
So it's with a bit of irony, as was noted yesterday by IGN, that he's performing to no small fanfare in celebration of his MySpace release this Friday in West Hollywood. MySpace, in case you've forgotten, is a wholly owned property of Fox Interactive Media. You can catch the full video in my recent video post I made on the topic, but a few bits of salient lyrics:
"MySpace pimps ho's and sluts/y'all exploit rap culture/then ya flip on us/then you own the post and ya sh!t on us/what is they net worth?/they gonna try and censor my next verse/throw 'em off the roof neck first..."