Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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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 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 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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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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