Nas Planning to take the high road

By: Yves Erwin Salomon

Nas is scheduled to release his new album, Hip Hop Is Dead...The N, on December 19th and fans are wondering if he will fire any shots at 50 Cent or the Diplomats especially in light of the fact that Jay-Z recently released a response to Jim Jones and his album includes a response to Cam'ron on the song, "Dig A Hole."

Both Cam'ron and Jones have publicly taken shots at Nas, and 50 Cent included a dis track, "Piggy Bank," on his last album, The Massacre.

Nas told MTV.com, "I'm trying to uplift the unity. You listen to Cam'ron's dis, that was just pieces of 'Ether'put together. You have to make a certain amount of albums to be in the ring with me. You can't have one album or two albums or went platinum one time, or you may have performed in front of 6,000 people once in your life. You have to be somebody in my weight class. You can't fight like that. That's not really a battle."

Nas added, "But there are spankings I can do. Lyrical, verbal assaults I can do on some of you clowns. But the take on this album is more of a unity thing. I don't really know if I'm gonna let some of those records fly where I do answer a thing or two. Maybe, maybe not."

Hip Hop Is Dead features guest appearances by The Game, Jay-Z, and Kanye West with production by Dr. Dre, Will.I.Am, Kanye West, and L.E.S.