Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
NASEvery generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
More Nas Quotes
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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 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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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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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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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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