DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
NASI think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
More Nas Quotes
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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