I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
NASYou can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
More Nas Quotes
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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 want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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 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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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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