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.
NASI never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
More Nas Quotes
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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’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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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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.
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I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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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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Hip-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.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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