My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
NASAfrica has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
More Nas Quotes
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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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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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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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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my 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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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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 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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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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 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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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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