To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
NASWe’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
More Nas Quotes
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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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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 the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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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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