Def Jam most likely thinks the project would not sell, but i can bet that, even though it is not a full length album, it would do well in stores. I can not could how many people leave comments on twitter asking for the album...I mean, like salivating for it.
DefJam is thinking it would be better to support a Young Jeezy album, or a Kanye West album, or some artist that appeals to the teens of America.
I am a Nas fan myself, and i just can't wait to get the album, and i hope Defjam would believe in Nas enough to support the project.
Okay, enough talking from me, read the letter that Nas wrote to DefJam below-
I won't even tap dance around in an email, I will get right into it. People connect to the Artist @ the end of the day, they don't connect with the executives. Honestly, nobody even cares what label puts out a great record, they care about who recorded it. Yet time and time again its the executives who always stand in the way of a creative artist's dream and aspirations. You don't help draw the truth from my deepest and most inner soul, you don't even do a great job @ selling it. The #1 problem with DEFJAM is pretty simple and obvious, the executives think they are the stars. You aren't.... not even close. As a matter of fact, you wish you were, but it didn't work out so you took a desk job. To the consumer, I COME FIRST. Stop trying to deprive them! I have a fan base that dies for my music and a RAP label that doesn't understand RAP. Pretty f*cked up situation." (Karen Civil)
"Lost Tapes is a movement and a very important set up piece for my career as it stands. I started this over 5 years ago @ Columbia and nobody knew what it was or what it did but the label put it out as an LP and the fans went crazy for it and I single handlely built a new brand of rap albums. It's smart and after 5 years it's still a head of the game. This feels great and you not feeling what I'm feeling is disturbing. Don't get in the way of my creativity. We are aligned with the stars here, this is a movement. There is a thing called KARMA that comes to haunt you when you tamper with the aligning stars. WE ARE GIVING THE PEOPLE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT. Stop throwing dog sh*t on a MAGICAL moment. You don't get another Nas recording that doesn't count against my deal....PERIOD! Keep your bullsh*t $200,000.00 fund. Open the REAL budget. This is a New York pioneers ALBUM, there ain't many of us. I am ready to drop in the 4th quarter. You don't even have sh*t coming out! Stop being your own worst enemy. Let's get money!" (Karen Civil)
Wow! That is some venom that Nas spit in that letter; i just hope defjam listen to him and drop that lost tapes 2, so nas can focus on working on his 10th album, which he promised before summer of 2011.
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