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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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You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.
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How can you lose when you're doing you?
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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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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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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 pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth.
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Respect all fear none my pride is everything
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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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The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.
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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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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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If the truth is told, the youth can grow.
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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 rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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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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I've learned not to be surprised by what people do no more.
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