We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
NASDJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
More Nas Quotes
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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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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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 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 just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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