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.
NASI don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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 don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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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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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 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’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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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