I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
NASAll fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
More Nas Quotes
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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 think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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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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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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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 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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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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