Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
NASYour look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
More Nas Quotes
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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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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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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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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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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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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