You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
NASI 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?
More Nas Quotes
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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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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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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’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 just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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 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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