Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
NASI think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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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’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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 never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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