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.
NASWorking 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.
More Nas Quotes
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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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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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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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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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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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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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