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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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Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.
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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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Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts
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I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece, But my life been good since I started finding peace.
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Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.
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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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Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.
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Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.
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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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You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.
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Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, Ugh, that's the old people's music. No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.
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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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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Respect all fear none my pride is everything
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Just do as much as you can.
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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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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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