DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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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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 never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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 sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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 don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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