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.
NASI just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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.
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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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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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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.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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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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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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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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