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Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game.
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For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.
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I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.
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Props is a true thug's wife.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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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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Respect all fear none my pride is everything
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I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.
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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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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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Dogs live longer than rappers.
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But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up
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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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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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I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.
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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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Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.
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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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