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.
NASI 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.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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’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 just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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