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" When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead. "
Nas
Music
Political
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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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" 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. 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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Mistakes
Moments
Respect
" 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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Black
Green
" Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight. "
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Hip-Hop
Spotlight
Noise
" I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up. "
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Have Fun
Beautiful
Fun
" I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on. "
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Going
Always
Rap
" 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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Everything
" 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. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us. "
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Responsibility
Day
" GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that. "
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Her
Game
Fearless
" Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest. "
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Man
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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. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words. "
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Words
You
Voice
" 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back. "
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Career
Pure
Me
" 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 - 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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Me
Think
Morning
" Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever. "
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Too Much
Feel
Just
" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "
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Age
Wisdom
Sense
" I can't control what people think. They know who I am. "
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Who
Think
Control
" I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. 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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Past
Words
Week
" We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow. "
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Everyone
Black
White
" 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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Talk
Anybody
Dating
" Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode. "
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Attitude
Me
Dying
" I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it. "
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Marriage
Thing
Think
" To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets. "
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Myself
Version
Creatively
" 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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Some
Tattoos
Life
" When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in. "
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Good
Live
Daughter
" I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. "
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Good
Opportunity
Life
" I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through. "
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Long Time
Long
Easy
" No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records. "
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Records
Radio
Sell
" I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did. "
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Never
Jealousy
Hate
" All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help. "
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Important
Mothers
Need
" 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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Fox
Baby
People