Nas Quotes
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If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.
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My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it.
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When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.
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Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.
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Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.
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I promise you, if you have a plan, you can accomplish everything you ever wanted
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The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own
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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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There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.
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Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
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How can you lose when you're doing you?
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You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike
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I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home
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You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.
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If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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If the truth is told, the youth can grow Then learn to survive until they gain control Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes Read more learn more, change the globe
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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 the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world. You start to thinking about creative moments - bliss. When everything was all good. You realize that in comparison to the way hip-hop started off, where we should be at right now is not there.
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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.
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I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.
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In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.
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I've been lucky enough to reach a place where I can speak what's in my heart, and people know that it comes from a real place; I don't have to worry about doing what someone's not doing - I can do me.
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Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you
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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 out there.
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I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge, Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance. Lessons, detrimental to a young disciple; Folks, take care of your brothers, niggas do as I do. Keep your enemies close, where they can see you. It's not your enemy who get you, it's always your own people.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.
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Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.
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