I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
NASI 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.
More Nas Quotes
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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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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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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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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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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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’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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