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.
NASI don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
More Nas Quotes
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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 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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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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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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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 don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with 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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