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I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret.
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All I need is one mic One beat, one stage One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib One god to show me how to do things his son did.
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Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.
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Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.
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I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be
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Never stop. Never settle. I believe in this message.
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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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Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.
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You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.
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I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
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I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.
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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'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw
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