Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
NASDJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
More Nas Quotes
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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 talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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 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 wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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