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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.
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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Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.
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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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I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
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You're supposed to be who you are. You're supposed to make music that is true to you.
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There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are some of us is just plain wack.
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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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Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.
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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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If the truth is told, the youth can grow.
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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
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And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.
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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 think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it because you can listen and watch the whole story. I would love to see lots of albums [become films.]
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I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'
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There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.
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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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Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about.
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