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.
NASI’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
More Nas Quotes
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I 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.
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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.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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