Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
NASI love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
More Nas Quotes
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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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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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your 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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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’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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