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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More Nas Quotes
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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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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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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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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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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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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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