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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More Nas Quotes
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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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 think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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