Top 100 Nas Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Nas

#1. So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

Talib Kweli

#2. I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z,
Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z,
Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty,
B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too.
You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to

Ab-Soul

#3. The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

Action Bronson

#4. Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.

Erik Parker

#5. Nas is the only person whose concert I been to.

DMX

#6. I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

Yara Shahidi

#7. I listen to every thing, all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.

Eve Jihan Jeffers

#8. Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

Beanie Sigel

#9. The Black Eyed Peas sell thousands of seats in every country on the planet. You can't get nervous. We're all succeeding in all different parts of our careers. Just because I produce Nas and John Legend and Justin Timberlake doesn't mean it will change the dynamic of the Peas.

Will.i.am

#10. When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

Michael Eric Dyson

#11. I felt like I could take the responsibility and make the Nas movement bigger and not keep it confined to the Tri-State area, so to speak. He allowed me to do that. When we were together, we made a lot of noise, and I made him an international star.

Steve Stoute

#12. I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.

Lykke Li

#13. My earliest love, which was sort of an obsession, actually, was Nas. I was in seventh grade, I believe, when 'Nastradamus' was out, and I took it pretty far.

Solange Knowles

#14. Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#15. I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.

Kelis

#16. Nas is one of my favorite rappers because you don't get any of that flashy stuntin'; you get the real, just raw bars. The way he tells stories and his vibe, I think we would make great music together.

Juicy J

#17. Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the trappings of music, such as fame.

Steve Stoute

#18. I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

#19. So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.

Mark Ronson

#20. I listen to Jay-Z, Nelly, Nas, Ludacris and all the young kids out there. I listen to them, and I have mad respect for them.

Stephanie Mills

#21. Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

Swae Lee

#22. The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry.

Erik Parker

#23. What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.

Steve Stoute

#24. I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

J. Cole

#25. When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.

Cyhi The Prynce

#26. Beef is not what Jay said to Nas;
Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.

Mos Def

#27. Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man's pen and legacy is without question.

Jay Electronica

#28. I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time

Nas

#29. No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.

Nas

#30. I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready.

Nas

#31. What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin
War gets deep, some beef is everlastin

Nas

#32. That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

Nas

#33. You're supposed to be who you are. You're supposed to make music that is true to you.

Nas

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.

Nas

#37. I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

Nas

#38. Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.

Nas

#39. I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

Nas

#40. Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever.

Nas

#41. Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

Nas

#42. I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

Nas

#43. Every great person educates themselves.

Nas

#44. If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.

Nas

#45. I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

Nas

#46. I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

Nas

#47. I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings

Nas

#48. Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

Nas

#49. Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

Nas

#50. 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

#51. Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.

Nas

#52. You lose money chasing women;
Never lose women chasing money.

Nas

#53. Dogs live longer than rappers.

Nas

#54. 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

#55. I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.

Nas

#56. Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down

Nas

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

Nas

#58. 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

#59. Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

Nas

#60. I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.

Nas

#61. Business, endorsements and things of that nature, I got into it kinda naturally. Those ventures materialised as a direct result of things that I was actually doing; all the partnerships have been organic and not necessarily etched out plans for monetary gain.

Nas

#62. 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

#63. I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.

Nas

#64. Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

Nas

#65. When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

Nas

#66. Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

Nas

#67. Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate ... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

Nas

#68. 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

#69. Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game

Nas

#70. You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

Nas

#71. The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support you

Nas

#72. But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up

Nas

#73. Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

Nas

#74. Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.

Nas

#75. Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?

Nas

#76. I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

Nas

#77. All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

Nas

#78. 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

#79. Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

Nas

#80. I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

Nas

#81. Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.

Nas

#82. A lot of times it seems like, you ain't gon' make it where you wanna be in life. But, yo if you got a plan, believe me you gon' get there. You gon' get everything you ever wanted

Nas

#83. The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Nas

#84. I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

Nas

#85. I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be

Nas

#86. I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

Nas

#87. Respect all fear none my pride is everything

Nas

#88. Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

Nas

#89. I had been through, of course, the divorce and I had been hit with some taxes that really showed me to be careful who's working with you and your money, and you have to be the one that is responsible for your money - you can't trust anyone and I did and I ran into a problem.

Nas

#90. I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret ...

Nas

#91. Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

Nas

#92. The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

Nas

#93. Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

Nas

#94. 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