I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
NASCalling 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.
More Nas Quotes
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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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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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’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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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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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 just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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Even 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.
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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I 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?
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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 love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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