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.
NASSomebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
More Nas Quotes
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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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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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 don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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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.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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