Leave it to the Don Imus camp to be on the same page as Nas. It's been a strange few months dealing with the language/content of hip hop and Nas put the icing on it all when he announced he'd be releasing an album titled N**** by the end of the year.

Two days later, Def Jam denied it (which was supposedly BS), Nas amended it from N**** to N****r and everyone weighed in on it ... except for Nas. Well that has changed:

We're taking power from the word. No disrespect to none of them who were part of the civil-rights movement, but some of my n-as in the streets don't know who [civil-rights activist] Medgar Evers was. I love Medgar Evers, but some of the n-as in the streets don't know Medgar Evers, they know who Nas is. And to my older people who don't now who Nas is and who don't know what a street disciple is, stay outta this mutha--in' conversation. We'll talk to you when we're ready. Right now, we're on a whole new movement. We're taking power from that word.