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.
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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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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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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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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