I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
NASYour look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
More Nas Quotes
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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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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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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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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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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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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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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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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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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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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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