Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
NASI’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
More Nas Quotes
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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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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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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