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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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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 push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a genuine fit.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it because you can listen and watch the whole story. I would love to see lots of albums [become films.]
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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 live in L.A. because my kids do. Home is where my kids are for me.
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You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.
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Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin War gets deep, some beef is everlastin
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Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.
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People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.
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And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.
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I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece, But my life been good since I started finding peace.
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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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