Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
NASI don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
More Nas Quotes
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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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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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 don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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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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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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