“God’s Son” hit the Internet a week ago and the massive bootlegging has begun, some sites boast that the album has already been downloaded 5000 times on their site. Columbia records has caught on to this and has subsequently moved the release date forward.
Instead of the original planned release date of December 17th, the album has been moved 4 days earlier to the 13th. If that seems like an odd day to you, you are right. The 13th is a Friday (bad luck Nas), which a switch from the industry standard of Tuesday releases. Eminem was forced to use similar methods earlier this year when he rushed “The Eminem Show” out on a Sunday.
“God’s Son is my most personal album and I poured my heart and spirit
into it,” said Nas. “It’s important to me that the fans hear my album
the way I intended. When you buy a bootleg or pirate a download off the net, you don’t get the real thing. The sound sucks, the sequencing is wrong, you’re probably missing some tracks, and you don’t even get the artwork and CD bonuses.”
