I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
NASThe flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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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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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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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