Nas Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game”
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“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 speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.”
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“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 you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.”
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“Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.”
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“I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.”
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“My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers”
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“I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth.”
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“What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.”
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“You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.”
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“Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.”
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“Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with.”
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“Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts”
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“Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.”
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“No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun...”
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“Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.”
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“I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.”
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“All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.”
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“Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.”
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“Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.”
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“Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer”
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“I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be”
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“Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost,”
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“All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.”
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“Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.”
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