Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
NASI had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
More Nas Quotes
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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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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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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