I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
NASTo me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
More Nas Quotes
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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 love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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 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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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 talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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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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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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