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.
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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real 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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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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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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 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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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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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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