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.
NASI think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
More Nas Quotes
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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 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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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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 smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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