You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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More Nas Quotes
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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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Calling 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.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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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 don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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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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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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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