My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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 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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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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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 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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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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 don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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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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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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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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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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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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