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.
NASI’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
More Nas Quotes
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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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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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 think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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