Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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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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I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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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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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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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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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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