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.
NASI wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
More Nas Quotes
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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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 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 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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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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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 don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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