My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
NASMan, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
More Nas Quotes
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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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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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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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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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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