I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
NASHip-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.
More Nas Quotes
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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 just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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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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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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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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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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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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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’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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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