Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
NASYou don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
More Nas Quotes
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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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 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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Man, 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.
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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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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 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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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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