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.
NASOnce you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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 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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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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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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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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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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