Nas Hop Quotations

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

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.

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

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

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.

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

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

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.

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

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

If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers.

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.

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.

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

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

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.'

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

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

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.

Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

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.

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

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

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

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

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. 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.

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

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

There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game.

Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.

In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.

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

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