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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 love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.
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I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to write anywhere but right there in the studio on the spot. So when you hear my stuff, know that I wrote it in the studio.
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I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
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Props is a true thug's wife.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.
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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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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.
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I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret.
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I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Dogs live longer than rappers.
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What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.
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A lot of times it seems like, you ain't gon' make it where you wanna be in life. But, yo if you got a plan, believe me you gon' get there. You gon' get everything you ever wanted
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Whose world is this? The world is yours.
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How can you lose when you're doing you?
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