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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.

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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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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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You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.
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Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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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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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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