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.
NASNo matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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 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 have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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