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.
NASI definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
More Nas Quotes
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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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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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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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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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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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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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