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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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Nasir Jones
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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Vocabulary spills I'm ill.
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The further I get, the further I want to go
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.
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I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not talking about Africa, that's them, that's cool, there's nothing wrong with that. But this is who I am, this is what I have to say, this is what I have to offer.
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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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I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me.
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The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own
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Working with great people makes you great you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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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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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