- The song is featured in the racing game Midnight Club: Los Angeles.
- "Hero" featuring Keri Hilson (Instrumental).
- The video appeared at #63 on BET's Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2008 countdown. Keri Hilson and Ken Jenkins both make appearances in the video. The music video premiered on BET on July 7, 2008. In the album version of "Hero," the lyric "Doug Morris" is censored. The reference to Doug Morris, then the chairman and CEO of the Universal Music Group, is preserved in the version of "Hero" that appeared on The Nigger Tape, a mixtape released in the run-up to the untitled album's release. R&B singer-songwriter Keri Hilson sings the song's chorus.
No matter what the CD called, I'm unbeatable y'all! I'm a hustla in the studio, cups of Don Julio I can't sit and watch it, so shit I'ma drop it! With new ideas, being told what they can and can't spit If Nas can't say it, think about these talented kids I never changed nothing, but, people, remember this Try telling Bob Dylan, Bruce, or Billy Joel they can't sing what's in they soul! Still in musical prison, in jail for the flow My lawyers only see the Billboard charts as winningįorgetting, Nas the only true rebel since the beginning and Doug Morris was riding with itīut Newsweek article startled bigwigs they said, "Nas, why is you tryin' it?" It's Universal apartheid, I'm hogtied, the corporate sideīlocking y'all from goin' to stores and buyin' itįirst L.A. The third verse of the song addresses the controversy surrounding the album, originally titled Nigger: After claiming that hip hop had died on his previous album, Nas raps on "Hero" about stepping up and bringing it back.
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