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.
NASYour look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
More Nas Quotes
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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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.
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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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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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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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 don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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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’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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