Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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 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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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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.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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