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.
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.
More Nas Quotes
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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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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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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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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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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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 don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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