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 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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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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 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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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’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 love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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