To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
NASCalling 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.
More Nas Quotes
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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 had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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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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