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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
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Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.
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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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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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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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Never stop. Never settle. I believe in this message.
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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 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 don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
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