DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
NASI’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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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’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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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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 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 don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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 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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