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.
NASI definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
More Nas Quotes
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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.
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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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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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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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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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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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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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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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