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.
NASI never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
More Nas Quotes
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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 had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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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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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 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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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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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 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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