Nas Quotes - Page 4

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.

Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

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.

Whose world is this? The world is yours.

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.

When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

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.

Read more learn more, change the globe

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.

True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane

Just do as much as you can.

Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about.

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.

I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her.

There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.

God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts

Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts

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.