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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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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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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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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