I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
NASMy record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
More Nas Quotes
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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.
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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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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 don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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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 making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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