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I've learned not to be surprised by what people do no more.
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.
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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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I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw
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Props is a true thug's wife.
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I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
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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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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 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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No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.
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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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I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
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Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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 like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.
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I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.
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What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.
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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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