Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
NASTo me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
More Nas Quotes
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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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.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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 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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