I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
NASI love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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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 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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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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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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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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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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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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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