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Nas Clarifies That The Line On His New Album Mentioning Doja Cat Wasn’t A Diss—“It’s All Love”

<p>Roommates&comma; earlier this week Doja Cat fans were up in arms over a lyric from the legendary <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;doja-cat-seemingly-responds-to-nas-diss-says-shes-dropping-a-song-titled-nas&sol;">Nas<&sol;a> on his new album&period; Well&comma; now Nas has offered up some clarification about the song and assures everyone that he was not intending to diss her at all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;complex&period;com&sol;music&sol;2020&sol;08&sol;nas-doja-cat-ultra-black-lyrics">recent interview<&sol;a> with radio station Power 106 to promote his new critically-acclaimed album &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;King’s Disease&comma;” Nas explained the lyric on the song &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ultra Black” which mentions Doja Cat and cleared up the rumors that he was shading her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nas stated&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was really just saying a rhyme that rhymed with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ultra Black&period;” I didn&&num;8217&semi;t even think of it&comma; you know what I&&num;8217&semi;m saying&quest; It&&num;8217&semi;s all love&period; It was just like &OpenCurlyQuote;Michael Blackson black&period;’ They&&num;8217&semi;re bars&period; Just lines&period; We play with words&comma; man&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nas spits the following line in the song&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sometimes I&&num;8217&semi;m over-black&comma; even my clothes are black&sol;Cash Money with the white tee and the soldier rag&period; We going ultra black&comma; unapologetically black&sol;The opposite of Doja Cat&comma; Michael Blackson black&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In response to the song&comma; Doja Cat recently revealed that she will be releasing a song called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;N&period;A&period;S&period;” Rumors have swirled that the song will not address Nas specifically&comma; but is instead an acronym for &&num;8220&semi;N&ast;&ast;&ast;as Ain&&num;8217&semi;t S&ast;&ast;t&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As we previously reported&comma; back in June Doja Cat was at the center of immense controversy after fans discovered that she frequented a chatroom website is known to be home to White supremacists and other radical groups&period; She also released a song called &&num;8220&semi;Dindu Nuffin&&num;8221&semi;—which is based on a phrase used to discredit Black victims of police brutality&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CENVol5B6cP" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Want tea directly in your text inbox&quest; Hit us up at 917-722-8057 or <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;my&period;community&period;com&sol;theshaderoom" data-saferedirecturl&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;google&period;com&sol;url&quest;q&equals;https&colon;&sol;&sol;my&period;community&period;com&sol;theshaderoom&amp&semi;source&equals;gmail&amp&semi;ust&equals;1598206290264000&amp&semi;usg&equals;AFQjCNHIk0vYEX5pxcLwIkBB9oK-pNuNzg">click here to join&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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