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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More Nas Quotes
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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