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.
NASHip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
More Nas Quotes
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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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 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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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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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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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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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 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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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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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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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 think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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