Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
NASThe sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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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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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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’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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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 think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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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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