Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
NASWhen I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
More Nas Quotes
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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 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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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.
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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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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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 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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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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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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