When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
NASI never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
More Nas Quotes
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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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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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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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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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.
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