Nas Quotes
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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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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 had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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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? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that's the real me.
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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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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. 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.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
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How can you lose when you're doing you?
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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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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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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. 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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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
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I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that.