Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
NASI can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
More Nas Quotes
-
-
I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
NAS -
DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
NAS -
GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
NAS -
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
NAS -
Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
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.
NAS -
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.
NAS