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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever I write it.
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New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where the settlers came and busted out their ideas and put it down so there's nothing but great space in this great city.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
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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.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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Vocabulary spills I'm ill.
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I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth.
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I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind
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I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
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I live in L.A. because my kids do. Home is where my kids are for me.
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I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.
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Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
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Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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