I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
NASStillmatic’ 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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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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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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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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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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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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