Nas Rap Quotations

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.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

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

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

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.

You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

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.

I never see the whips niggas be claimin' they drivin, I guess 'entertainment' means blatantly lyin'.

I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me.

Props is a true thug's wife.

Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game

I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity, Just hope the Big Man show me some courtesy

...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul, Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style. Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes, Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.

I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.

With rap music, because it's all so 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."

I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

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

I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge, Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance. Lessons, detrimental to a young disciple; Folks, take care of your brothers, niggas do as I do. Keep your enemies close, where they can see you. It's not your enemy who get you, it's always your own people.

Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.

Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer

I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece, But my life been good since I started finding peace.

Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.

If the truth is told, the youth can grow Then learn to survive until they gain control Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes Read more learn more, change the globe

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

What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever.

I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth.

It's a thin line between paper and hate, Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights, Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come, Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.