Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
NASDJs 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.
More Nas Quotes
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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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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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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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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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