Nas Way Quotations

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.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.

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."

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.