Nas Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• 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.

  Nas

  Couple, Voice, Hip Hop

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

  Nas

  Cousin, Rap, Sleep

  Song: The Message, Album: It Was Written, 1996

• 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.

  Nas

  Real, Perfect, Hip Hop

• What you base your happiness around?
  Material, women, and large paper?
  That means you inferior, not major.

  Nas

  Rap, Mean, Hip Hop

  Song: No Idea's Original

• It's a thin line between paper and hate,
  Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
  Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come,
  Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

  Nas

  Hate, Rap, Snakes

  Song: Hate Me Now, Album: I Am..., 1999

• 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.

  Nas

  Motivational, Integrity, Boss

  Song: Bridging The Gap 12", Album: Street's Disciple, 2004

• 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.

  Nas

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

  Song: One Mic, Album: From Illmatic To Stillmatic: The Remixes

• I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
  But my life been good since I started finding peace.

  Nas

  Rap, Life Is Good, Thinking

  Song: Loco-Motive, 2012

• 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

  Nas

  Inspirational, Rap, Gangsta

• Everything will eventually come to an end,
  So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
  The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
  Cause nothin' lasts forever.

  Nas

  Rap, Time Flies, Hip Hop

• Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work, and you get nothin' without struggle and hard work

  Nas

  Motivational, Struggle, Hard Work

• You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Vision, Coward

  Song: Friends

• You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money...

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Chasing

  "Ghetto Rich". Song by Nas, Rich Boy and Lil Wayne, March 13, 2007.

• If I ruled the world Imagine that...

  Nas

  Hip Hop, World, Imagine

  Song: If I Ruled The World '09, Album: It Was Written, 1996

• Let the music diffuse all the tension.

  Nas

  Inspirational, Music, Stress

  Song: Made You Look, Album: God's Son, 2002

• I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth.
  Not the biased truth,
  Not the liest truth,
  But the highest truth.

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Allegiance

• Some seek fame cause they need validation,
  Some say hating is confused admiration.

  Nas

  Hate, Confused, Rap

• 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.

  Nas

  Brother, Rap, People

• Street's disciple, my raps are trifle.
  I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Brain

  Song: The Genesis, Album: Illmatic

• If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Answers, Chance

  "Trust". Song by Nasir Jones (Nas), Matthew Jehu Samuels (Boi-1da), Jamaal Anwar Sublett and Matthew Raymond Burnett, July 13, 2012.

• But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth
  Rich men died and tried, but none of it worked
  They just rob your grave, Id rather be alive and paid
  Before my numbers called, historys made
  Somell fall, but I rise, thug or die
  Makin choices, that determine my future under the sky
  To rob steal or kill, Im wondering why
  Its a dirty game, is any man worthy of fame?
  Much to success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite
  Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.

  Nas

  Dirty, Fall, Thug

• It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Loyal, Cash

  Song: A Queens Story, Album: Life Is Good, 2012

• Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.

  Nas

  New York, Hip Hop, Hips

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2008.

• 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.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Hips, Form

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

• ...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul,
  Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style.
  Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes,
  Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.

  Nas

  Rap, Blow, Clothes

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