Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
NASDJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
More Nas Quotes
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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 just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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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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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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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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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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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