My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
NASAnybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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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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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 want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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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’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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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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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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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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