I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
NASWhen you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
More Nas Quotes
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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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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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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 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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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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 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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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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 I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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