With age comes common sense and wisdom.
NASThe sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
More Nas Quotes
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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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.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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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 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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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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