No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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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.
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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 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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I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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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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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’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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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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 think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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