Nas Quotes

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Nas

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 14, 1973

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 don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

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With age comes common sense and wisdom.

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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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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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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

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I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

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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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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

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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 love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

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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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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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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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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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