Politician takes aim at record label bosses over Nas album

A New York politician is demanding the state withdraws an $84m (€58.3m) state pension fund invested in Universal Music Group unless rapper Nas changes the title of his new album, 'Nigger'.

Brooklyn assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is appalled by Nas' plans to test racial boundaries - by using the defamatory word as an album title - and he wants to penalise the rapper's music label bosses if they don't persuade him to change his mind.