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.
NASI don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
More Nas Quotes
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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