Nas
Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known by his stage name Nas /ˈnɑːz/, is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas has released eight consecutive Platinum and Multi-Platinum albums and sold over 25 million records worldwide since 1994. He is also an entrepreneur through his own record label; he serves as associate publisher of Mass Appeal magazine and is the owner of a Fila sneaker store. He is...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 September 1973
CountryUnited States of America
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.
When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or told from my perspective.
Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.
I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be
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.
I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun...
Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.
Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.
You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.
Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about.
I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.