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.
NASI never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
More Nas Quotes
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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 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 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 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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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