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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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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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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've been lucky enough to reach a place where I can speak what's in my heart, and people know that it comes from a real place I don't have to worry about doing what someone's not doing - I can do me.
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Respect all fear none my pride is everything
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If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.
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When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second... because you don't believe in yourself.
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I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.
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Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.
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I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.
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There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game.
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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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Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.
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Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, Ugh, that's the old people's music. No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.
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All I need is one mic One beat, one stage One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib One god to show me how to do things his son did.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
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The big stars in rap, they were too big, so when my rap generation started, it was about bringing you inside my apartment. It wasn't about being a rap star it was about anything other than.
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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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Dogs live longer than rappers.
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For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.
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