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I've been lucky enough to reach a place where I can speak what's in my heart, and people know that it comes from a real place I don't have to worry about doing what someone's not doing - I can do me.
Nas
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Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
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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 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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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've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me.
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On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.
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Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.
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You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.
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I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
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The big stars in rap, they were too big, so when my rap generation started, it was about bringing you inside my apartment. It wasn't about being a rap star it was about anything other than.
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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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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts
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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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Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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The further I get, the further I want to go
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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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