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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More Nas Quotes
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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.
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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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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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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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