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.
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More Nas Quotes
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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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Working 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.
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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’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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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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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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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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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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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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 want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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 don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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