I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
NASLife Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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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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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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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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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.
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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.
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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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