Nas confuses himself with some sort of dignitry

Can it really be true that Nas - the man who claims in "NY State of Mind" to win "gun battles with mega cops" - has tried to insist that he gets a police escort to his gig in Birmingham tonight?

Nas has insisted in his rider:

"Under no circumstances is the artist to be delayed arriving or departing the venue due to traffic."

And how, exactly, is the venue meant to make the traffic in a city bend to his will?

If ever there was a time and place just begging for a Reclaim The Streets demo, this, surely, is it. How priceless would the look on Nas' silly I-love-murder chops be if his cars sailed round a corner into a street blocked by people enjoying a bicycle party?