Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
NASI can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
More Nas Quotes
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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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.
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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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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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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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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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