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.
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More Nas Quotes
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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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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.
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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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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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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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