Nas Quotes

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• The further I get, the further I want to go
• The flaws, the mistakes I make – that's the real me.
• When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make…
• A lot of times it seems like, you ain't gon' make it where you wanna be in life. But, yo if you got a plan,…
• I promise you, if you have a plan, you can accomplish everything you ever wanted
• To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to…
• It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.
• You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part…
• With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat,…
• When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.
• I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in…
• You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.
• Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.
• I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.
• I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any…
• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
• 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…
• Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

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