Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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 just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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