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?
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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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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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’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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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 like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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 definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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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 don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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