Latest Nas Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm sure we're gonna meet some bumps in the road, but if it's meant to be it will happen.

  Nas

  Meant To Be

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way.

  Nas

  Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could chew but you'd be an idiot to think I'm talking about how the South killed hip-hop or how New York isn't where it should be or where it once was. It was like, "Damn, I need to explain this?" But I thought, "Nah, the proof is right there. We should know what it is." I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

  Nas

  Thinking, Idiot, Retarded

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Nas

  Thinking, Artist, Creative

  Source: pitchfork.com

• All on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

  Nas

  Cat, Enough

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Some people say I'm saying what they wanna say. Some people don't agree. Some people are outraged. Some people want to see what the album is about. To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that, come on. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That's what it's all about - get this money. That's basically what I'm saying.

  Nas

  People, Making Money, Agree

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Nas

  Wall, People, Special

  Source: www.billboard.com

• New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where the settlers came and busted out their ideas and put it down so there's nothing but great space in this great city.

  Nas

  World

  Source: www.billboard.com

• Today, with the media, the internet, things get out there about anybody, anytime, so there's nothing wrong about talking about your life, because someone else is going to talk about it and mess it up.

  Nas

  Media, Talking, Today

  Source: www.metabunker.dk

• I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not talking about Africa, that's them, that's cool, there's nothing wrong with that. But this is who I am, this is what I have to say, this is what I have to offer.

  Nas

  Thinking, Who I Am, Talking

  Source: www.metabunker.dk

• 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.

  Nas

  Real, Heart, People

  Source: www.metabunker.dk

• To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

  Nas

  Artist, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.metabunker.dk

• When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second... because you don't believe in yourself.

  Nas

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

• If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.

  Nas

  Believe, People, Ifs

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.

  Nas

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it because you can listen and watch the whole story. I would love to see lots of albums [become films.]

  Nas

  Book, Thinking, Documentaries

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I've learned not to be surprised by what people do no more.

  Nas

  People, I've Learned

  "Video of Nas Performing Why You Hate the Game/ Clips of the Nas". XXL Interview, uproxx.com. November 22, 2006.

• Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.

  Nas

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Matter

  Source: uproxx.com

• I'm proud to be an American, no matter what. But Amercian culture is stale, you know wha I'm saying ? We keep regurgitating the same sh*t. And it ain't exciting. I seen it from when I was a kid watching the whole sh*t. The sh*t was exciting to me.

  Nas

  Kids, Proud, Matter

  Source: uproxx.com

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

  Nas

  World, Contradiction, Persons

  Source: uproxx.com

• Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.

  Nas

  America, Hip Hop, Causes

  XXL Magazine Interview, November 2006.

• I push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a genuine fit.

  Nas

  Limits, Fit, Moments

  Source: newpopdaily.com

• "Never stop. Never settle." I believe in this message.

  Nas

  Believe, Never Settle, Messages

  Source: newpopdaily.com

• I live in L.A. because my kids do. Home is where my kids are for me.

  Nas

  Home, Kids

  Source: newpopdaily.com

• The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

  Nas

  Stress, Don't Stress, Whole

  "Interview with Nas | The legendary rapper on never giving up and chasing your dreams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.