When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
NASNo one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
More Nas Quotes
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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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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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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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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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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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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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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.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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