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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.
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I got the opportunity to meet people all over the world. Brilliant women, tall women, short women, slim women, thick women, you name it. But, I don't meet them. I have the opportunities to and it's a little bit - I'm a little shy, so I don't meet them and I don't know who's right for me.
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I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
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I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge, Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance. Lessons, detrimental to a young disciple Folks, take care of your brothers, niggas do as I do. Keep your enemies close, where they can see you. It's not your enemy who get you, it's always your own people.
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Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.
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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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Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.
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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 have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.
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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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And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.
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People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.
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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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What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.
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I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece, But my life been good since I started finding peace.
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Props is a true thug's wife.
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I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.
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It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
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