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.
NASI don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
More Nas Quotes
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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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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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 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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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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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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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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