Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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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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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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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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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 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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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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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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