I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
NASThere 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.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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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 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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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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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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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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