When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
NASEvery time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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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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