Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
NASI want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
More Nas Quotes
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I’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.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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 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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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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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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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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