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.
NASI think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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 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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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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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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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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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.
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