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.
NASI don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
More Nas Quotes
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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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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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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