Outspoken rapper Nas jumped at the chance to participate in a protest against bosses at TV network Fox this week - branding their news reporting "racist" and biased.

The I Can hitmaker joined ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org campaigners outside Fox's New York headquarters in Manhattan on Wednesday to deliver a 600,000-name petition calling for network executives to end their "pattern of racist attacks against Black Americans".

And Nas - real name Nasir Jones - is delighted he was one of the first stars approached by organizers at ColorOfChange.org to take part.

He tells MTV.com, "The organization saw me as someone who could be a part of it, and they reached out.

"I was like, 'Hell yeah, I'm a part of it!' This is a network that's been going after rappers ... yet (Fox political commentator) Bill O'Reilly uses the phrase 'lynching party' for a woman. That's the worst term I've ever heard to disrespect a woman, and he says it on television. And he doesn't like rappers? Wow."

O'Reilly has long been an adversary of hip-hop and its stars.

In 2002, he caused controversy when he called for the boycott of all products by soft drinks manufacturer Pepsi after they appointed Ludacris their celebrity spokesperson. O'Reilly claimed the Area Codes rapper's music glamorized a "life of guns, violence, drugs and disrespect of women". Ludacris was later dropped from the Pepsi campaign.

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