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.
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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I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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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’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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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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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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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’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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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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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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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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