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Nas

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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Call Conscious Everything Gangsta Rap
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.
NAS

Feel Grown Hip Hop Involve Like Politics Up Way
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.
NAS

Best Firsthand Friend Kill Other Plenty Relate Seen Somebody
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.
NAS

Again Become Brave Country Enough Gotta Hip Hop New Something
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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Associate Every Fulfill Generation People Power Prophecy Try Witness
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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Crazy Everybody Out Please Some Take Thing Time Try Yourself
I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
NAS

According Change Life Regret Some Tattoo
DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
NAS

Challenge Much Need Power Rapper
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.
NAS

All Competitive Get Hand Hip Hop Number One Out Really Sometimes Standoffish Time
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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Beat Blunt Compromise Livelihood Speak Street Voice Word
My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
NAS

Do Easy Fun Work
No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
NAS

Anything Biggest No Promise Radio Record Sell
I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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Each Other Hate Jealous never People
Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
NAS

Anybody Dating Music Talk Want
I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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Country Life Make Music Style Talk Universal
Even 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.
NAS

Decay Great Human Little Mad Mistake Moment Thing Truest

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