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Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with.
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.
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If the truth is told, the youth can grow.
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Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game
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It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
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How can you lose when you're doing you?
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I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind
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I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me.
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I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
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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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The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.
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I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.
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Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.
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Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
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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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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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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.
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