I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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More Nas Quotes
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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 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 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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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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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’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.
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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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