I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
NASMy record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
More Nas Quotes
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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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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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 see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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