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.
NASHip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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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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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 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 don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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