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.
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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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 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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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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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.
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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 definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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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.
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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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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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