I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
NASMy fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
More Nas Quotes
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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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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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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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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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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 know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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