Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
NASMarley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
More Nas Quotes
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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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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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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 think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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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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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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