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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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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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New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where the settlers came and busted out their ideas and put it down so there's nothing but great space in this great city.
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I never see the whips niggas be claimin' they drivin, I guess 'entertainment' means blatantly lyin'.
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You're supposed to be who you are. You're supposed to make music that is true to you.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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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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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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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 kill soloists only kill squads
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Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.
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Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.
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Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.
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Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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How can you lose when you're doing you?
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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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I'm sure we're gonna meet some bumps in the road, but if it's meant to be it will happen.
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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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Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.
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On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.
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