I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
NASThere was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
More Nas Quotes
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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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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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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?
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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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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