Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame
Nas
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
Actor
Businessperson
Dressmaker
Entrepreneur
Musician
Political Activist
Rapper
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Restaurateur
Singer
Brooklyn
New York
Nasir Jones
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
Nasty Nas
Nas Escobar
Fame
Afraid
Position
Always
People
Rappin
Sacrificial
Criticism
More quotes by Nas
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
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
I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.
Nas
Read more learn more, change the globe
Nas
I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
Nas
I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.
Nas
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
Nas
I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw
Nas
I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
Nas
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.
Nas
I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
Nas
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
The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.
Nas
Africa has been going through so much for so many years it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
Nas
Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
Nas
I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to write anywhere but right there in the studio on the spot. So when you hear my stuff, know that I wrote it in the studio.
Nas
What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.
Nas
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.
Nas
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.
Nas
In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.
Nas
