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.
NASEvery generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
More Nas Quotes
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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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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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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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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 definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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