I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
More Nas Quotes
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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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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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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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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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I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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