Jul 27 / 2020

The 32 best quotes from rapper Nach

We review the most acclaimed verses of one of the best-known hip-hop artists.

The name Ignacio Fornés may not mean much to you. The great Nach (formerly known as Nach Scratch) is an Alicante rapper born in 1974.

One of the most popular voices of the Spanish hip-hop scene, Nach has shined with his own light since he released his first LP "En la brevedad de los días" in 2000.

Great phrases of Nach

His verses have always been the subject of veneration and controversy in equal parts.. His fervent social criticism has been a leitmotif in his artistic work, which already has 10 albums behind him.

In today's article we are going to know the best phrases of Nach, as well as his verses and reflections that have generated more debate over nearly twenty years of career.

1. The child wanted to know and no one knew how to answer, the child did not find the affection he thought he deserved. So he began to grow up and to disobey, appearing in front of his pillow drunk at every dawn. (Troubled Boy)

In this mythical song he tells us about a young man who, living a gray and ruthless existence, begins to flirt with drugs and bad life.

2. Tell me where you were when anxiety choked me, when every thought made me retch and every pore of my skin trembled. With no one to hold me and tell me: calm everything will be fine (You were not and will not be).

A spiteful verse towards someone who was never there when needed.

3. Anger dances in the air and broken love hurts them, with no one to comfort her she locks herself up and cries in the bathroom. She carries the chain and others will suffer the damage. (Chains)

In this song he explains how feelings, good or bad, spread in a chain.

4. We don't live in the moment or heal the wounds. Loves on a whim and hates for entertainment. (Time escapes)

On the fragility of human bonds in our time.

5. My rap burns to remember them, to tell the world that their struggle was not in vain. (Shots of silence)

Every struggle sows a seed for the future.

6. In these times of flight love comes and goes. When all is lost another light will come, it will kill the somber cold of loneliness. (Love comes and goes)

Another Nach's phrase that talks about superficiality and the hope for a better future.

7. Yours is the sea if you seek it, yours is the earth if you want to dig, yours is the fire if you want to burn, yours is the air, yours is the art and the flowers, do you want to stay? (A life ahead)

A verse of devoted love.

8. I met Constancia soon after, I was attracted by her fragrance and from that moment on I got to know her. Her self-esteem and discipline told me: "Don't give up, you will have a place at the top with the best". (They)

A metaphor that tells us about the virtues of perseverance.

9. Sometimes we forget that the best things in life are free. (Free)

Love, the good times with your loved ones... they don't cost money.

10. Your mission will be to have fun and also to laugh, what's the use of suffering if later you will have to leave? (A life ahead)

Carpe diem, it's not worth worrying so much.

11. I curse the one who denied you the gift of feeling the sun, of seeing the sunrise, of meeting your first love. (Angel)

In this song she talks about her sister, who died in her youth.

12. You notice the lie as it breathes, you feel the anger staring at you, you watch the greed swirling around your generation, while in a corner you go blind with rum. (The demon camouflaged in the asphalt)

Verses for an uncertain future.

13. They speak to us of peace by showing us a gun. They give us freedom but tell us when to use it. (Thinking out loud)

About the false freedom and rights we enjoy in western society.

14. Knowing how to live day by day makes us wise. (Binomial)

Knowing how to enjoy the little things, that is the meaning of life.

15. I will be there when you cry and when you laugh, in your days of melancholy and in your joys. (I love you)

A brutal love phrase by Nach.

16. Why do they call it "love" when it's only dependence and momentary need for warmth? Why do they call it "love" when they go from flower to flower? (I shit on love)

Reflecting on sentimental relationships in the 21st century.

17. Yourself, so transparent and so full of enigmas. No need for frenzy, no need for fur coats. I like you so you, so like this, just as you are. (Just as you are)

A hymn to spontaneous and deep love, without artifice.

18. How can I give it up if this is part of me. (So many reasons)

About his job as a rapper, which is also his passion.

19. I fell in love with so many things that it hurt, I enjoyed a thousand battles, it didn't matter if I lost. (Living)

One of his most positive and vital songs.

20. Sometimes you dream too much, so much that the real thing doesn't matter. You feel the days transport you and you feel alone, off, like this cursed city that urges you to beg those who take the most from you. (Interlude)

The miseries and joys of urban life, summarized in a single verse.

21. We live seeing summits that are closer and closer, we die if routine watches behind our door. (On the tightrope)

Having goals and taking risks, the key to a happy life.

22. Because I love you, above all but, beyond the mighty knight don money, you renew the lover, and lull the warrior to sleep. You make me only know how to speak with my Heart first. (Free love)

Another great romantic verse from the great Nach.

23. Tranqui, if it can be done, there is no need to stop, it is to know yourself, never give up, never limit yourself. (To be or not to be)

Little by little and good handwriting. The best stories emerge without haste.

24. At this very moment a prisoner chats with himself, so lonely. A large family sits down to dinner and the only thing you can hear is the news. (At this very moment)

Paradoxes of life and communication between humans. Another one of those Nach's phrases that make you think for hours.

25. I observe the world and I see how it suffers and rots, the rottenness of man covers it. Promises and oaths that turn to ashes, debt-based economies that enslave us. (Requiem)

One of those verses brimming with social criticism.

True to my motto, earn money from the system by making music against the system. (Manifesto)

Another paradox that illustrates his revolutionary ideology.

27. I'm looking for an unattainable calm, the atmosphere here is unreliable. I want to be alone if only everything will be all right, let no one talk to me, let them not break this silence, it's mine. Today I want to feel the cold. (Nothing and no one)

An ode to the silence and tranquility that offers us a moment of sought-after solitude.

28. Beyond the shadow there is a world that amazes, I will find my own course if luck names me. (Beyond the shadow)

A phrase that can make us go out of the darkness of the day to day.

29. She had everything he was looking for in a woman, she was that angel hidden behind her honey-lipped skin. (Him and her)

A romantic verse born from Nach's pen.

30. There is no better teacher than the mistake, nor more sweetness than the one who suffers and then heals his pain. (Manifesto)

The good thing about time is that it knows how to heal wounds, albeit slowly.

31. And if life is an instant today I want to forget that I exist... I want to escape to my desert without being seen, to leave this circle, to fly to another place, to remain still, there solitude is my amulet. (Nothing and no one)

Little more to add.

32. We all have a story that must be told, and we keep a secret that no one knows about, we talk to the pillow but it doesn't answer... The truth is out there, yes... But it hides. (Chains)

A moving phrase by Ignacio Fornés to make us realize that life is unrepeatable.

(Updated at Apr 13 / 2024)