I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
NASI wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
More Nas Quotes
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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 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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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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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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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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