With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin'… — Nas Copy Share Image
Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are… — Nas Copy Share Image
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way,… — Nas Copy Share Image
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels… — Nas Copy Share Image
I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like,… — Nas Copy Share Image
When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me. — Nas Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean? — Nas Copy Share Image
I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know… — Nas Copy Share Image
Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may… — Nas Copy Share Image
Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no… — Nas Copy Share Image
People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it. — Nas Copy Share Image
I need the best things in life, that's women, thats cars. Cigars in Venice, bottle on ice, thats priceless. — Nas Copy Share Image
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… — Nas Copy Share Image
I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through. — Nas Copy Share Image
I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not… — Nas Copy Share Image
Life is short is what some n* said, not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did. — Nas Copy Share Image
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… — Nas Copy Share Image
This morning I got a call, nearly split my wig. This social network said Nas go and get your kid. She's on Twitter, I… — Nas Copy Share Image
I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of… — Nas Copy Share Image
![“I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long…” quote by Nas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aff/nas-650_bullshit_i-think-you-gotta-always-do-things-that_1957227.jpg)
