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.
NASN.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.
More Nas Quotes
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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’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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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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