Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nas

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

Nas

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

Nas

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

Nas

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.

Nas

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

Nas

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

Nas

Props is a true thug's wife.

Nas

Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game

Nas

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

Nas

...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.

Nas

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.

Nas

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."

Nas

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

Nas

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.'

Nas

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

Nas

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.

Nas

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

Nas

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

Nas

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

Nas

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.

Nas

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

Morris Chestnut

If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."

Johnny Marr

Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.

Missy Elliot

The rapping is cool, but my lines aren't all that fly. People like Biggie Smalls or Jay-Z who say stuff that you have to rewind and listen to twice and be like, "Wow, what made them say that?" or "I would have never thought about saying that" - those are rappers I really look up to. As far as flows, I can give you flows all day.

Max Roach

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

Max Greenfield

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

Mayer Hawthorne

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Noel Gallagher

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Noel Gallagher

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

Nina Simone

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

John Entwistle

I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.

Jimmy Fallon

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

Joan Cusack

I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.