To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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 never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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 love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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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 just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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 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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