Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
NASI can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
More Nas Quotes
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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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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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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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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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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