I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
NASWhen 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.
More Nas Quotes
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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 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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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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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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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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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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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 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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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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