American rapper From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known as Nas and formerly as Nasty Nas, is an African-American rapper from Queens, New York. He's one of the most influential rappers of the 90's.
I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coat chocolate blunts will make me see him drop in my weed smoke
Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park)
Live amongst no roses, only the drama, for real A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja
Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park)
"Fuck 'rap is real', watch the herbs stand still never talkin' to snakes cause the words of man kill true in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins
Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park)
Then I rose, wiping the blunts ash from my clothes then froze only to blow the herb smoke through my nose and told my little man that i'm a go cyprose there's some jewels in the skull that he can sell if he chose words of wisdom from nas try to rise up above
So analyze me, surprise me, but can't magmatize me Scannin' while you're plannin' ways to sabotage me I leave 'em froze like her-on in your nose Nas'll rock well, It ain't hard to tell
I've seen some cold nights and bloody days They grabbed me bullets spray, they used me wrong so I sing this song 'til this day.
I Gave You Power
From child births to hearses, flow like the Nile covered surface Bit the fruit from the serpent.
Nas Is Coming
Mad smoke makes me able to quote Soliciting ill editions of that murder I wrote.
Nas Is Coming
fake thug no love, get the slug CB4 gusto ur luck low, i didn't know til i was drunk tho you freak niggaz played out, get fucked and ate out prostitute turned bitch got the gage out 96 ways i made out montanna way, good f-e-l-l-a, verbal AK spray
The Message
A thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up
The Message
I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret.
"Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end."
"Nas Is Like"
"Street scriptures, for lost souls in the crossroads.."
"Nas Is Like"
"I'm like the farmer, planting words, people are seeds/ My truth is the soil, help you grow like trees/ May the children come in all colors, change like leaves/ Behold before you, one of those prophetic MC's."
"Ghetto Prisoners"
"U wet who I want wetted/I wet who u want wetted/any nigga can get it(a favour for a favour)
Had 8 partners growin' up/ 8 turned to 7/ 7 turned to 6 n!*@%^$/ got 2 in heaven/ 6 of us, holdin it, now it's 5 rollin' thick/the 6th one's parole flipped, 5 n***az went to 4 quick/ when he went O.T, college life, converted into gangbangin/ 4 n***az still hangin/ years passin, slang changin/ 3 of us now, 4th n***a ain't around/ we all thought he was real, he did that snake shit, fake shit/ beat his ass down/ yo his mouth could've got us all wasted/ what a fuckin clown/ all I got left in the end is two of my best friends/ and we all goin' out 'till the death of these ends
"N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II"
(speking) "You hear about, you see about it/ it's in your papers/ it's in your daily news/ (get money!) / New York chronicles, every day/ the crime rate, the murder rate/ the money rate, the paper chase, youknowwhatImean?/ New York State of mind, baby, check it out.
Aiyyo, the brother's "Stillmatic" I crawled up out of that grave, wipin the dirt, cleanin my shirt. They thought I'd make another "Illmatic" But it's always forward I'm movin Never backwards stupid here's another classic
Stillmatic (The Intro)
It's suicidal, high smokin' so much la', I saw a dead bird flyin through a broken sky
No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done
No Idea's Original
The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does Even if you murdered or robbed, yeah it's wrong, but God loves Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you Even when all else fail, God support you."
Doo Rags
The reason that I want to be alone Tired of all the things that went wrong That would have went right if I would have did it on my own
I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings
Thugz Mansion (N.Y.)
Don't say the car is topless, say the titties are out
Made You Look
You a slave to a page in my rhyme book
Made You Look
How can I trust you when I can't trust me
Book of Rhymes
I get upset 'cause I just want to be treated the way you are Like a star not a worry in this world thus far But wait a minute we both need ya mother's attention I must be crazy jealous of my own baby infant*
Book of Rhymes
Whatever you decide, be careful, some men be Rapists, so act your age, don't pretend to be Older than you are, give yourself time to grow You thinking he can give you wealth
When I was nine, coldest winter i remember we're slipping in december, two feet of snow Yeah thats the east coast, that black ice - symbolize the rap life
Hope
Some things are forever, some things are not It's the things we remember that gave the world shock"
Can't Forget About You
Now all these new cats with they hats flipped backwards fingers intertwined in sum gang sign madness I got an exam lets if you pass it Now who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest?