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.
NASThe sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
More Nas Quotes
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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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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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 think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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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 don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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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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