With age comes common sense and wisdom.
NASOnce you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
More Nas Quotes
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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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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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’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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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 think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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