No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
NASI don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
More Nas Quotes
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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 think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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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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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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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 think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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