Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
NASMy record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
More Nas Quotes
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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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Somebody 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.
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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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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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