Nas is requesting that Def Jam do one thing…just put his sh*t out! Looks like Def Jam is putting the God Son through the ringer and quite frankly he’s tired of it. Wouldn’t you be? The Queens rapper wants to give the people want they want and wants the bosses over at Def Jam to do the same.

Check out Nas’ well written letter below…

From: Nas
To: LA Reid, Steve Bartels, Steve Gawley, Michael Seltzer, Joseph Borrino, Chris Hicks
Subject: PUT MY S*** OUT!

Peace to all,

With all do respect to you all, Nas is NOBODY’s slave. This is not the 1800?s, respect me and I will respect you.

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 DEF JAM 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***** up situation

This isn’t the 90?s though. Beefing with record labels is so 15 years ago. @ this point I just need you all to be very clear where I stand and how I feel about “my label.” I could go on twitter or hot 97 tomorrow and get 100,000 protesters @ your building but I choose to walk my own path my own way because since day one I have been my own man. I did business with Tommy Mottola and Donnie Einer, two of the most psycho dudes this business ever created. I worked well with them for one major reason……. they believed in me. The didn’t give a f*** about what any radio station or magazine said….those dudes had me.

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 s*** on a MAGICAL moment.

You don’t get another Nas recording that doesn’t count against my deal….PERIOD! Keep your b******* $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 s*** coming out! Stop being your own worst enemy. Let’s get money!

-N.Jones

Now that’s gangsta!

Sidebar: LMAO @ the execs wanting to be stars! Why won’t they just let Nas be great?!

Is Nas wrong for airing out his label?

See all Usher had to do was get rid of his pet monster Tameka Foster for his music career to take off again. And at the rate he’s going, we hope he doesn’t wife up another cougar anytime soon. The R&B crooner is killing the charts right now and he has plans to keep it that way. In a recent interview with the UK’s Capital FM, Usher revealed that he has a couple tricks up his sleeve including a possible collaboration with “Good Girl Gone Rated R” Rihanna. He says,

“Me and Rihanna have been speaking about doing something together. There is definitely something to wait for, I’ll say that much.“

A collabo with Usher and RiRi sounds really interesting. For one, he can sing and she can’t…wonder how that’s going to work out.

A few hours ago, Str8NYC hopped on a conference call with the “Supreme Team”, Rick Ross, Diddy and DJ Khaled courtesy of Def Jam and BOBO. A few things were revealed on the call, which we’ll get into later. But, we’re gonna touch on Diddy comparing his new client to the late Notorious B.I.G. first. When asked what’s the best quality he sees in Rick Ross as an artist, Diddy responded:

“I think overall his approach to a record, you know what I’m saying? And overall him as an artist. He doesn’t just talk about the regular stuff that you hear a lot of cats talking about now. Everything he talks about is from the soul and is from his heart. And his approach to the record, you know what I’m saying? The way he approaches the record is from a real standpoint, you can tell he’s approaching it from an honest standpoint. You know, I’ve always been wanting to work with artists that have a certain vocal tone and he sounds like a giant–he is a giant. He just has that personality, you know what I’m saying? He’s a very unique artist. He’s bigger than just an artist–he’s a brand! And that’s one of the reasons I wanted to work with him is because I feel we can do bigger and better things. And having worked with Biggie, somebody that also was talking about things in the street. I’m not comparing him to Biggie, before you know we get started going down that road. But, I am saying that there is similarities in the mental approach of a record that I do have a familiarity with. To me, however anybody wants to take it–he’s the Biggie of the South. Hands down!”

WHOA! Realtalk, Biggie and Rick Ross shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence. The only thing they have in common is that they’re both fat and black. Rick Ross may talk about the streets, but his past as CO tells a completely different story.

Be on the look out for more tidbits from the call…

Radio Killa aka The Dream drops a new video for his second single “Make Up Bag” featuring T.I. off his already delayed album Love King set to drop June 29th. Nick Cannon’s ex-fiance and Victoria’s Secret Angel Selita Eubanks plays The Dream’s boo as he showers her with expensive designer bags to make up for all the trifling things he’s done. The song really doesn’t do it for me and neither does the video.

Peep the video…

ON DECK or OFF DECK?!

The June/July issue of The Source features two separate covers. Ricky Ross, the Teflon Don, is on the front of the first cover and it is now revealed that “Mr. Sex Room”, or as it appears “Mr. Ten Toes Down”, Ludacris, covers the second.

Hold up is that Rosa Acosta Luda is starring at?!

Ludacris is on some for real freaky sh*t as of late, well… as of always. remember p* popping? And then he’d hop on a track with Justin Beiber and make a conscious song like “Runaway Love” with Mary J. Blige.  He does it well though, you can’t hate. The Summer Heat issue hits newstands June 22nd.

Which cover do you like best- the Rick Ross joint or the Luda joint?

Pop starlet Rihanna stirs up controversy yet again with her new video “Te Amo”, the  fifth single off her Rated R album. The James Fauntleroy penned track is about another chick falling in love with RiRi. Really?! What’s next Rihanna? Another strange and dark music video? What ever happened to “Pon Di Replay” Rihanna?! S.O.S. means someone save her from herself.

I always knew RiRi had lesbian tendencies…smh

ON DECK or OFF DECK?!

She told you she’s a rock star! Check out Rihanna’s new video for her fourth single “RockStar 101″ off her Rated R album. The video features RiRi doing what she does best–gyrating with barely any clothes on. Rihanna puts on more of a show in her videos than she does on stage. Why is that?! Anywhoo, the video is directed by Melina Matsoukas, who’s also the eye behind RiRi’s “Hard” and “Rude Boy” videos. Blink 182 rocker Travis Barker also does his thing on the drums in the video.

LMAO@ RiRi imitating Slash.

ON DECK or OFF DECK?!