Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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.
More Nas Quotes
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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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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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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