No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
NASI’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
More Nas Quotes
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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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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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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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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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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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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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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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 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 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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