I guess Nasdaq Dow Jones is out, and Nigga is in. Nas told the NY Times that he would be naming his next album simply Nigga.

“That’s the name right now,” he said. “I don’t care about sales,” he said Wednesday from MAC Cosmetics party for Diddy’s new fragrance, Unforgivable.“Well, tonight I don’t. I never was a big sales dude, so it never really mattered.”

Jana Fleishman, a spokeswoman for Def Jam, was taken back when asked of the proposed title. She spoke with Mr. Jones later on and claimed he had changed his mind. “Nas says he was being facetious. He just started recording last week.”