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.
NASAnybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
More Nas Quotes
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real 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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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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