To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
NASI talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
More Nas Quotes
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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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get 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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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 like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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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 never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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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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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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