Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
NASWhen I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
More Nas Quotes
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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 want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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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.
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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’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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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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 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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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 never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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