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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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Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.
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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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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I live in L.A. because my kids do. Home is where my kids are for me.
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Respect all fear none my pride is everything
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.
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Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.
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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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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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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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There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.
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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 don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
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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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When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second... because you don't believe in yourself.
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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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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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I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.
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