I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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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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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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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 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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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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Man, 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.
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