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.
NASI see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
More Nas Quotes
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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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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 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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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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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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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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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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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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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