Nas might've pulled off the impossible. No Billboard Top 50 single. No catchy dance you can do in the club. No stellar reviews for the artist formerly known as Escobar. But when the smoke clears, there will be 300,000 plus copies of Hip Hop Is Dead sold in its first week. And it will go down in history as the most important rap album to come out in 2006. Nas took off the blazer, loosened up the tie, pulled it out the casket...Hip Hop is alive. Now I'm not praising the album (I skip about 6 songs) nor am I saying that 300,000 is some monumental number. Young ...

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