Is You Is or Is You Ain't My N-Word?

Ok, confusion! We met Nas' announcement that his forthcoming album is titled Nigga with ambivalence? A shrug? A slight acknowledgment that there will, sadly, never be a follow-up to "Oochie Wally"? But the label says it's not happening. They should've told Nas! He is, after all, onto something. He needs the full support of the label, so the term can be resurrected and buried again. Funerals for racial epithets are the guts! [NWS]