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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More Nas Quotes
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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