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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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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.
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If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.
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I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.
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Today, with the media, the internet, things get out there about anybody, anytime, so there's nothing wrong about talking about your life, because someone else is going to talk about it and mess it up.
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For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.
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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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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 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.
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I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame
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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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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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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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Whose world is this? The world is yours.
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I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to write anywhere but right there in the studio on the spot. So when you hear my stuff, know that I wrote it in the studio.
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No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.
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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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Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.
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