I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
NASWhenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
More Nas Quotes
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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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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 just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake 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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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 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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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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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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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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