Nas Not Getting Dropped by Label Over Controversial Album Title

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Rumors regarding rapper Nas being dropped by his record label over the title of his next album are reportedly false. Nas has been at the center of controversy since announcing his ninth studio album would be called Nigger. The story of the Queensbridge rapper being dropped was initially reported by Mediatakeover, who quoted an "insider" as saying "If Nas doesn't change his mind, he'll be dropped. And he doesn't have to much time to come to that realization." Rock Daily spoke to an Island Def Jam spokesperson who said of Mediatakeover's claims, "That is absolutely ridiculous and untrue." Nigger is tentatively scheduled for a February release.

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“Karma Chameleon”

Culture Club | 1983

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."

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