I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
NASWe’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
More Nas Quotes
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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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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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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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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 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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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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