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No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.
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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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Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Vocabulary spills I'm ill.
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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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But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up
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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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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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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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No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.
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Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about.
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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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Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.
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It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
Nas
Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts
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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'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.
Nas
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
Nas
Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.
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