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.
NASI love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
More Nas Quotes
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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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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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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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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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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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