When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
NASI have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
More Nas Quotes
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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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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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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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 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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