Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
NASI 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.
More Nas Quotes
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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