Nas Quotes

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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…
• Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing…
• To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
• We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
• 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…
• 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…
• I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines,…
• Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I…
• Big up to Flex. Stop taking so much cizock in his mizouth.
• I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.…
• With age comes common sense and wisdom.
• Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are…
• I never sleep because sleep is the cousin of death.
• Life's a bitch, God forbid the bitch divorce me.
• A thug changes, and love changes, and best friends become strangers
• We deal with money, cars, smog, pollution, and drugs. But being in the sky, they can fly and look at the world without dealing with…

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