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.
NASWorking with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Some 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.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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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 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.
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