I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
NASI definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
More Nas Quotes
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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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.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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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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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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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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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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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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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’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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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 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.
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I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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