My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there. Nas Read Quote
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New. Nas Read Quote
You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm. Nas Read Quote
GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that. Nas Read Quote
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand. Nas Read Quote
No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records. Nas Read Quote
I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do. Nas Read Quote
DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us. Nas Read Quote
