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.
NASI don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
More Nas Quotes
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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 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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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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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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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