Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
NASLet’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
More Nas Quotes
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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Divorce 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.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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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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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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