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Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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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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Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.
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Life is short is what some niggaz said not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.
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So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes.
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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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My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it.
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I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me.
Nas
I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.
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But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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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 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've been lucky enough to reach a place where I can speak what's in my heart, and people know that it comes from a real place I don't have to worry about doing what someone's not doing - I can do me.
Nas
Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.
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Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.
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I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.
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For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.
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I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw
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What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin War gets deep, some beef is everlastin
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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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