You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
NASI 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.
More Nas Quotes
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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 love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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