Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
NASEven if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
More Nas Quotes
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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