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.
NASIt’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.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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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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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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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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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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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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