I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
NASMarley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
More Nas Quotes
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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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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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like 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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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 wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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 see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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I 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.
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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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