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Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
Actor
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Nasir Jones
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
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Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.
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People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame
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Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.
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Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.
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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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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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But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up
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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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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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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.
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Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.
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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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Just do as much as you can.
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I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.
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In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.
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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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Today, with the media, the internet, things get out there about anybody, anytime, so there's nothing wrong about talking about your life, because someone else is going to talk about it and mess it up.
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I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.
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