Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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 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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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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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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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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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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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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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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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