Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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 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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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