I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
NASI’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
More Nas Quotes
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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