Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
NASHip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
More Nas Quotes
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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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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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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