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Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.
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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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There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.
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I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.
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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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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.
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I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me.
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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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When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way.
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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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I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge, Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance. Lessons, detrimental to a young disciple Folks, take care of your brothers, niggas do as I do. Keep your enemies close, where they can see you. It's not your enemy who get you, it's always your own people.
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I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her.
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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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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.
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I'm sure we're gonna meet some bumps in the road, but if it's meant to be it will happen.
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