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.
NASAnybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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 think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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I 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.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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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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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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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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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 speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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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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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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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’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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