I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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 record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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 love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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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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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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