I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
NASI want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
More Nas Quotes
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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.
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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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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 love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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’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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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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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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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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