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.
NASI don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
More Nas Quotes
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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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’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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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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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 don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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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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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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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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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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