Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
NASI love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
More Nas Quotes
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No 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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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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 hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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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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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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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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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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