My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
NASI’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
More Nas Quotes
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like 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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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 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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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