Stevie Wonder - Wonder Slams Nas Nger Lp

Soul legend STEVIE WONDER has blasted rapper NAS for planning to call his new album N**GER - insisting the word is still offensive to a lot of people.

Nas came under fire from both the media and his record label, Def Jam, for using the racist term as the title for the LP - and he was eventually persuaded to change it.

The record will now simply be titled Nas.

But Wonder is disgusted that the star ever decided to use such an inflammatory term for his work - as the public debate over the issue will have stirred up a lot of painful memories for many people.

And the Superstition hitmaker hopes the public will eventually be able to erase the insult from their vocabularies.

He says, "I'm not with the word only in that we had buried the word and it should have been buried.

"People say, 'Well we use it for fun and whatever.' I'm not really feeling it and I know sometimes it comes in (to) conversation... For all the pain that has happened over the years, what that word brings up, it needs to go away."

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