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.
NASYou don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
More Nas Quotes
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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.
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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’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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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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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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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of 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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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DJs 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.
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I’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.
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