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You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
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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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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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What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are some of us is just plain wack.
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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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Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.
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Whose world is this? The world is yours.
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For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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