I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
NASI 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.
More Nas Quotes
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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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 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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