My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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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’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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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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