New Nas album gets an early release
ByDec 4, 2002 11:00 PM
Citing rampant Internet piracy of the album’s tracks, Columbia Records has moved the release date of Nas’ forthcoming album “God’s Son” up four days to Dec. 13.
Citing rampant Internet piracy of the album’s tracks, Columbia Records has moved the release date of Nas’ forthcoming album “God’s Son” up four days to Dec. 13.
According to a press release issued by his label, “rather than risk having fans experience inferior and incomplete versions of his new album, Nas has decided to break the music industry’s standard Tuesday release practice and get ‘God’s Son’ into stores as soon as possible.”
“God’s Son is my most personal album and I poured my heart and spirit into it,” Nas said in a statement. “It’s important to me that the fans hear my album the way I intended. When you buy a bootleg or pirate a download off the net, you don’t get the real thing. The sound sucks, the sequencing is wrong, you’re probably missing some tracks, and you don’t even get the artwork and CD bonuses.”
“God’s Son"--Nas’ first full-length album of new material since the December 2001 release of the platinum-selling Stillmatic--features production from Eminem, Alicia Keys, Salaam Remi, and Alchemist.
Earlier this year, Eminem’s third album, “The Eminem Show,” was released on a Sunday--more than a week before it was initially scheduled to go on sale--because of widespread bootlegging and piracy.