Nas And Green Lantern Set To Release "The Nigger Tape"

a week after announcing he will rename his controversial Nigger album to simply Nas, word has spread that Nas is scheduled to team up with DJ Green Lantern to drop a mixtape titled The Nigger Tape. "I guess it shows you the power of Wal-Mart and Target," Green Lantern told Rhapsody's Play blog. "If that was the case, it's definitely scary because it kind of fucks with your artistic vision.

But Nas and DJ Green Lantern are coming out with a mixtape called The Nigger Tape. Can't nobody hold that back." The tape will feature remixes, outtakes, exclusive tracks, and also an unreleased verse from Nas' recently released "Be A Nigger Too." A new version of "The Last Real Nigga Alive," originally a track on God's Son, is also expected to to be on The Nigger Tape.

As previously reported by HipHopDX [click to read], Nas initially was to title his next effort Nigger, as announced during a New York performance at Nokia Theater last year. After hearing the uproar of both positive and negative feedback, he then decided to change the album's spelling to the more eyebrow-raising Nigger. Although he was supported by Def Jam Records Chairman L.A. Reid as well as then-president (and former foe) Jay-Z, many large-scale retailers including Wal-Mart said they would boycott the album and refuse to stock it on their shelves , thus forcing Nas to fold and change the controversial title.

Nas' newly self-titled album is tentatively slated to drop July 1st.

There is still no word as to when The Nigger Tape will hit streets.