Can I tell a quick Nas story?
When I was like 17, Nas' I Am came out. I stopped paying attention to rap at that time. So one day my friends and I took the subway to see an ECW show in Queens. There were posters for Nas' CD all over the terminal and in the E and F trains. Well, later on I realized that somebody took out a white paint marker and wrote "a gold plated ******" after the album's title on nearly all of the posters. And his hand writing matched the posters' 100%.
So, for nearly a month, I thought Nas's follow up album was called, "Nas is...a gold plated ******". By 1999, I fell out of love with hip hop and really didn't think much of it. That was the same year that ODB put out ***** Please. It seemed unlikely that Nas would resort to such a dumb album title, but man those posters were convincing.
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