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.
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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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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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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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