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?
NASI definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
More Nas Quotes
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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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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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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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