GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
NASSome 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.
More Nas Quotes
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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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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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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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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 sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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