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.
NASThe sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
More Nas Quotes
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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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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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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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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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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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 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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