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.
NASDJs 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.
More Nas Quotes
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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 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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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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 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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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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