241 Quotes by Nas

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.

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

Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.

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

'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart.