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How can you lose when you're doing you?
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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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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Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.
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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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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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I got the opportunity to meet people all over the world. Brilliant women, tall women, short women, slim women, thick women, you name it. But, I don't meet them. I have the opportunities to and it's a little bit - I'm a little shy, so I don't meet them and I don't know who's right for me.
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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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The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own
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If the truth is told, the youth can grow.
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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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Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.
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There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.
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Just do as much as you can.
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I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'
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Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, Ugh, that's the old people's music. No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.
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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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