Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
NASThe flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
More Nas Quotes
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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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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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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