My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
NASI think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
More Nas Quotes
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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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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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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