Nas Changes Album Title from "NIGGER"

A representative for Def Jam has confirmed that hip-hop artist Nas has made an eleventh-hour decision to change the title of his new album from N—– to simply Nas.

In an interview with MTV News last week, Nas suggested that he was facing renewed pressure: "Everybody is trying to stop the title.... Record stores are gonna have a problem in this day and time selling a record with that title. Who knows what's gonna turn out and be on that title? Who knows what that title will be?" The politically-charged Nas is due in stores July 1.