Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
NASI don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
More Nas Quotes
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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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 talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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 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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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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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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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 never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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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