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
-
-
Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
NAS -
DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
NAS -
There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
NAS -
I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
NAS -
Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
NAS -
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.
NAS -
Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
NAS -
I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
NAS