Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
NASAnybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
More Nas Quotes
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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I 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.
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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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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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