I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
NASI 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.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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 never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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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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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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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