XXLMag.com | Owe Me Back Like You Owe Your Income Tax

Owe me back like 40 acres to blacks, indeed.

SOHH.com workhorse Cyrus Langhorne—who dons either a pseudonym or the best name in rap coverage, including Toure—often does a great job connecting news stories. However, I’m gonna give today’s “Hiyooooo” Award to TMZ’s title for the original piece covering Nas’ federal tax lein.

Kelis will have to wait in line, indeed. Them $45,000 monthly payments are gonna have to be retroactive or some shit.

As if the spousal support hit and forthcoming child support weren’t going break a nigga hard enough, Nas reportedly owes $2.5 million in taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. The fucked up part is I can only think of one thing. If that’s just his federal bill, I wonder what the state jawn looks like. Is this nigga like $5 million dollars in the hole?

I guess that’s why Nas’ name and image are now somberly placed on Hennessy ads–alongside headwrap/coffee shop legends like Common, De La Soul and The Roots–after so adamantly denying participating in a beer commercial on an MTV documentary several years ago. I forget which documentary exactly, but I remember Nas riding in the backseat of a car through New York on his cell phone. He makes a couple of faces that indicate he’s not really listening to the suit on the other end of the line and says “They trynna get me to do a beer commercial. Not gonna happen,” into the camera. This is to put his righteous enlightenment on display for all to see, of course.

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[geico lizard]

I have to admit before I clown these guys that I liked "You Owe Me" when it came out and I was disappointed it didnt do better. Also in that category was the song Nas did with R kelly the hook was "did you ever think you would be this rich and did you think you would be the Don". My only beef with that last song was Nas has never been a Don running things he has always been an employee. Even with women Nas gets run around like a personal assistant.
Back to clowning these cats Ron you are right Ludacris shouldnt be broke because ALL of his albums have gone platinum. I dont know what kind of deals these people are signing but its not enough or they live everyday like its a real rap video. Gabby Union may have ganked him for alot of dough before she moved onto wrecking D Wades marriage.
Nas is getting karma back for dodging the NY state of mind and the Raekwon album. He would wash Jay-z and Raekwons cars right now to get on their albums and get a check. It was all good just a week ago...not really but Nas was so high he didnt know.