The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
NASWhen I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
More Nas Quotes
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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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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