Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
NASI’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
More Nas Quotes
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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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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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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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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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