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.
NASYou know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
NASStillmatic’ 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.
NASI want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
NASI talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
NASI’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.
NASYou can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
NASI think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
NASI’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
NASEvery generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
NASI 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.
NASI definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
NASLife Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
NASI 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.
NASWorking 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.
NASI don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
NASWhen I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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