Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Nas Remembers Squashing Beef With Tupac

Plus words from Ice Cube and Gabrielle Douglas.

Nas on the time he was going to fully squash his beef with Tupac:  - "He passed the day before my birthday. I was gon' meet him in Vegas and it rained in Vegas when he passed. It was a trip.” (Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival)

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Nas on the time he was going to fully squash his beef with Tupac:  - "He passed the day before my birthday. I was gon' meet him in Vegas and it rained in Vegas when he passed. It was a trip.” (Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival)

Suge Knight clarifying his statement about Kendrick Lamar and the Game getting ripped off by their record labels:  - "It wasn't about putting them as men down or as artists down, it was about putting the person who's in control down, saying 'How are you f****** over these dudes from Compton when they're making a difference for your company?'" (Photo: Vivien Killilea/WireImage)

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Suge Knight clarifying his statement about Kendrick Lamar and the Game getting ripped off by their record labels:  - "It wasn't about putting them as men down or as artists down, it was about putting the person who's in control down, saying 'How are you f****** over these dudes from Compton when they're making a difference for your company?'" (Photo: Vivien Killilea/WireImage)

Lupita Nyong'o saluting the gay community at the GLAAD Awards:  - "I wanted to be here to stand in solidarity with this community." (Photo:  Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

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Lupita Nyong'o saluting the gay community at the GLAAD Awards:  - "I wanted to be here to stand in solidarity with this community." (Photo:  Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

Fly Young Red on his gay-freindly song "Throw That Boy P****": - "When I do this, I do this for all types of gay males who like hip hop. We're all there. So I want to show all sides. The next video may have transgender women in it.  " (Photo: BET)

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Fly Young Red on his gay-freindly song "Throw That Boy P****": - "When I do this, I do this for all types of gay males who like hip hop. We're all there. So I want to show all sides. The next video may have transgender women in it.  " (Photo: BET)

Naomi Campbell on gay men:  - "Gay men have made me who I am."(Photo:  Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images for GLAAD)

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Naomi Campbell on gay men:  - "Gay men have made me who I am."(Photo:  Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images for GLAAD)

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Laverne Cox on getting a GLAAD Award:  - "I'm still not used to getting awards. I'm an African-American transgender woman from a working class background raised by a single mother. We are not programmed to think we should receive these kinds of awards. But I like to think that things are changing." (Photo: Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images for GLAAD)

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Laverne Cox on getting a GLAAD Award:  - "I'm still not used to getting awards. I'm an African-American transgender woman from a working class background raised by a single mother. We are not programmed to think we should receive these kinds of awards. But I like to think that things are changing." (Photo: Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images for GLAAD)

Chingy on how a rumor he was dating a transgender model ruined his career:  - "I lost a deal cause of that… It was sad to me. Because it was so much bad publicity around it…I've never been through a sabotage situation like that. And it was so fabricated and false." (Photo: Maury Phillips/BET/Getty Images)

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Chingy on how a rumor he was dating a transgender model ruined his career:  - "I lost a deal cause of that… It was sad to me. Because it was so much bad publicity around it…I've never been through a sabotage situation like that. And it was so fabricated and false." (Photo: Maury Phillips/BET/Getty Images)

Aretha Franklin on the rumored fight she had with Patti LaBelle:  - "I've never heard anything crazier — regarding myself and Patti allegedly fighting on March 20, in Atlanta." (Photos from Left: Larry French/BET/Getty Images for BET, Shahar Azran/WireImage)

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Aretha Franklin on the rumored fight she had with Patti LaBelle:  - "I've never heard anything crazier — regarding myself and Patti allegedly fighting on March 20, in Atlanta." (Photos from Left: Larry French/BET/Getty Images for BET, Shahar Azran/WireImage)

Ice Cube on he and Kevin Hart losing to late Paul Walker at the MTV Movie Awards:  - “Shame on you, MTV. We had the best chemistry of everybody nominated. For us not to win was crazy. We were the best on-screen duo, period. They should have gave it to [Walker] before he passed away.” (Photo: Rich Polk/Getty Images for MTV)

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Ice Cube on he and Kevin Hart losing to late Paul Walker at the MTV Movie Awards:  - “Shame on you, MTV. We had the best chemistry of everybody nominated. For us not to win was crazy. We were the best on-screen duo, period. They should have gave it to [Walker] before he passed away.” (Photo: Rich Polk/Getty Images for MTV)

Gabrielle Douglas on why her encounters with racism weren’t included in her TV biopic:  - “I talked about it on Oprah [Winfrey] and couple of other interviews including my Vanity Fair story, so we didn’t want to touch on that in the movie because I already spoke on it.”  (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Heart Truth)

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Gabrielle Douglas on why her encounters with racism weren’t included in her TV biopic:  - “I talked about it on Oprah [Winfrey] and couple of other interviews including my Vanity Fair story, so we didn’t want to touch on that in the movie because I already spoke on it.”  (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Heart Truth)

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Wendy Williams on why she didn’t last long on Dancing With the Stars:  - “If I gave a little more sassafrass then I discovered I would have stayed because that’s how they were writing my script–to be the angry Black woman.”(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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Wendy Williams on why she didn’t last long on Dancing With the Stars:  - “If I gave a little more sassafrass then I discovered I would have stayed because that’s how they were writing my script–to be the angry Black woman.”(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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A representative for Brandy announcing her engagement to Ryan Press was off:  - “They are no longer together. The engagement is off, but the friendship is still on.”(Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

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A representative for Brandy announcing her engagement to Ryan Press was off:  - “They are no longer together. The engagement is off, but the friendship is still on.”(Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

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Andy Cohen on the future of the Real Housewives of Atlanta:  - “In terms of casting for next season, we haven’t made any of those decisions yet. We wait until the season is over, over, over. We kind of regroup. We look back at the season. We look ahead to what these women have going on in their lives and that’s when we assess.”(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

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Andy Cohen on the future of the Real Housewives of Atlanta:  - “In terms of casting for next season, we haven’t made any of those decisions yet. We wait until the season is over, over, over. We kind of regroup. We look back at the season. We look ahead to what these women have going on in their lives and that’s when we assess.”(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Malawi president Joyce Banda chastising Madonna:  - "For her to tell the whole world that she is building schools in Malawi when she has actually only contributed to the construction of classrooms is not compatible with manners of someone who thinks she deserves to be revered with state grandeur.” (Photos from left: Lefteris Pitarakis - WPA Pool /Getty Images, Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Malawi president Joyce Banda chastising Madonna:  - "For her to tell the whole world that she is building schools in Malawi when she has actually only contributed to the construction of classrooms is not compatible with manners of someone who thinks she deserves to be revered with state grandeur.” (Photos from left: Lefteris Pitarakis - WPA Pool /Getty Images, Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Darren Aronofsky on why no people of color were cast in the biblical film Noah:  - “You either try to put everything in there, which just calls attention to [race], or you just say, 'Let’s make that not a factor, because we’re trying to deal with [the] Everyman.'” (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

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Darren Aronofsky on why no people of color were cast in the biblical film Noah:  - “You either try to put everything in there, which just calls attention to [race], or you just say, 'Let’s make that not a factor, because we’re trying to deal with [the] Everyman.'” (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)