I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
NASI’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
More Nas Quotes
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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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I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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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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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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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 just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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