It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
NASSome 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.
More Nas Quotes
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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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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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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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.
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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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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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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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