Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
NASYour look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
More Nas Quotes
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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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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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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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