I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
NASEven 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.
More Nas Quotes
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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 don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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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 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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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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 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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