We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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 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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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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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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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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 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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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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