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.
NASWhen 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.
More Nas Quotes
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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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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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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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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 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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