Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
NASI’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.
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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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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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 sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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 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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