I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people… — Nas Giving Copy Share Image
Gat to stay true to who you are and where you come from coz at the top will be the same place… — Nas Copy Share Image
The craziest things already happened to me. So either you'll be laughing at me or you're laughing with me, ha. — Nas Comedy Copy Share Image
Snitches and rapists in the street. Crime to the fullest. Asking niggas if they got any extra nine bullets. — Nas Crime Copy Share Image
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… — Nas Copy Share Image
You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in… — Nas Album Copy Share Image
All on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of… — Nas Cat Copy Share Image
Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing… — Nas Copy Share Image
Watch out for desperate lonely women, hurt your happy home. Miserable and alone. Kissable, nice to bone. She not the type deserving… — Nas Happy home Copy Share Image
Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life,… — Nas Beauty of life Copy Share Image
No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too. — Nas Chaos Copy Share Image
I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get… — Nas Divorce Copy Share Image
I never see the whips niggas be claimin they driving. I guess entertainment means blatantly lying. Fake it til you make it,… — Nas Entertainment Copy Share Image
Gucci pillow on the bed, while she giving noggin. Listening and tripping off the Maxwell album. Thinking I should leave to a… — Nas Book Copy Share Image
I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth. — Nas Allegiance Copy Share Image
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. — Nas Copy Share Image
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… — Nas Copy Share Image
My people in the streets. I make it feel like its the beach. My goons close by Im daring one of yall… — Nas Copy Share Image
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't… — Nas Copy Share Image
Try to compare what you live to the life I master. See the fly shit I wear, you try to rock it… — Nas Life Copy Share Image
My 24th b-day, I'm sailing to Bermuda, you can see me on a yacht blasting pop, little not, I ain't greedy. — Nas Sailing Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya its wrong, but God loves, take… — Nas Copy Share Image
The bubbly I'm pouring wasn't popped yet. Before there was an audience to watch us I assure you, there was a process. — Nas Audience Copy Share Image
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. — Nas Being crazy Copy Share Image
I pull a string on the lamp that shit darkens. I'm living in an elegant Moroccan apartment. Proletarian chicks sparking. Convo weak… — Nas Copy Share Image
Stay flyest, they gon' want to know what in your diet. Don't be surprised if they want to check your shit and… — Nas Food Copy Share Image
I broke into Shakespeares tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game. — Nas Copy Share Image
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… — Nas Copy Share Image
I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game — Nas Copy Share Image
I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your… — Nas Discovery Copy Share Image
Ayo, late night, candlelight, fiend with diesel in his needle. Queensbridge leader, no equal. I come from the Wheel of Ezekiel. To… — Nas Late night Copy Share Image
It's better to dead a beef than let it breathe. Then we don't succeed. Cause then you gotta murder dummies. Waste your… — Nas Money Copy Share Image
Fuck sadness, had this been you having this lavish. Habitual happiness at me you wouldnt look backwards. You would have sex on… — Nas Happiness Copy Share Image
I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the… — Nas Art Copy Share Image
The reason I want to be alone, is Im tired of all the things that went wrong that wouldve went right if… — Nas Copy Share Image
People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame — Nas Copy Share Image
Pass that, not you, you hold cracks in your ass crack. I never did that, my sock's where my stash was at. — Nas Copy Share Image
The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if… — Nas Copy Share Image
There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood.… — Nas Copy Share Image
Im protected like the President. Aint gotta give a speech. Got a compass on the wrist, Illmatic on the feets and they… — Nas Communication Copy Share Image