With age comes common sense and wisdom.
NASUnfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
More Nas Quotes
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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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 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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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 don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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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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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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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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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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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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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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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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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