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Rap Sheet: Def Jam Backs Nas To the Fullest

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• Backing Nas: At the NYC premiere for the highly anticipated movie American Gangster, Def Jam’s chairman, L.A. Reid professed unwavering support for Nas’ decision to give his album a super controversial name. Watch the video version. Nas hopes to disarm the “n” word by using it so freely.

• Duckdown: Smif N Wessun “Stomp” out the competition in this new video featuring Rock and Joell Ortiz.

• Connected: Immortal Technique explains the how closely related Revolution and Gangsta Rap is.

• Rehab time: Listen to Ghostface’s “Celebrate” single from his soon to be released The Big Doe Rehab album now dropping on December 4. The Wu-Tang album, 8 Diagrams was pushed back till December 11 to give Ghost some breathing room.