My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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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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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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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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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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