I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
NASHip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
More Nas Quotes
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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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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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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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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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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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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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