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.
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 talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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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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