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.
NASWorking 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.
NASStillmatic’ 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.
NASLife Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
NASAnybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
NASEvery generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
NASHip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
NASMan, 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.
NASI want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
NASI can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
NASIt’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.
NASEven 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.
NASNo matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
NASI don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
NASI’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.
NASWhen I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
NASI 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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