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.
NASDivorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
More Nas Quotes
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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’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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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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 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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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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 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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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