My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
NASI’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
More Nas Quotes
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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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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 don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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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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