black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.

Nas

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.
NAS

Bad Enough Morning Opportunity Put Really Smile Wake Up
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.
NAS

Conscious Do Gangsta Just Lane People Rapper Some Stomping
I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
NAS

Divorce Easy Get Long Not Pretty Public Realy Though Time Took
My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
NAS

Do Easy Fun Work
Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
NAS

Happen Look Mind Refer Some Swag You
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.
NAS

Artist Attitude Bigger Country Man Mess Pass
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.
NAS

All Criticize Hip Hop How Just Pursuit Think Through Us
I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
NAS

Enjoy Just Life Morning Now Up Wake
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.
NAS

Country Grimy Grind Hustler Rapper See Sound Street
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
NAS

Beg Company Filminm Music Project Record Stop Video
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.
NAS

All Competitive Get Hand Hip Hop Number One Out Really Sometimes Standoffish Time
No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
NAS

Ask Black Green Matter Mean Thing Way White
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.
NAS

Hear Know Like Rap Right Slave Sort Talk
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.
NAS

Album Bring Career Circle Come Debit Everything First Full Hip Hop Illmatic Out Rebirth Stillmatic
Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
NAS

Anybody Artist Classical Rapper
I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
NAS

Control Know People Think

I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Nas Quotes