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.
NASEven if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
More Nas Quotes
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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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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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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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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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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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I 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.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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