I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
NASEvery time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
More Nas Quotes
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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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 love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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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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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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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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 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’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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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