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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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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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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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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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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 go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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