Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
NASMy record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
More Nas Quotes
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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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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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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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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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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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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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 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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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