Nas Quotes
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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 think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. 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 just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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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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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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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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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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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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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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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 don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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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. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.