My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
NASI 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.
More Nas Quotes
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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 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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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