Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do. Nas More Quotes by Nas More Quotes From Nas You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses. Nas different missing men People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically. Nas hip-hop focus people I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh. Nas rap long thinking I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening. Nas collaboration fans people Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness. Nas skinny chicks thickness Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe. Nas cameras light gold On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, Nas rap hip-hop revolution 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 I don't kill soloists only kill squads Nas squad Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York. Nas hips hip-hop new-york 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 agree making-money people The big stars in rap, they were too big, so when my rap generation started, it was about bringing you inside my apartment. It wasn't about being a rap star; it was about anything other than. Nas generations rap stars I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers. Nas warrior government thinking I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging. Nas artist want giving 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 ems video song 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 african-american italian native-american I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it. Nas smell who-i-am thinking 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 new-york attitude war And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes. Nas dykes stuff writing 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 hip-hop numbers hands
