Nas

The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

— Nas

Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game

— Nas

How can you lose when you're doing you?

— Nas

Props is a true thug's wife.

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If I ruled the world Imagine that...

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Just do as much as you can.

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I don't kill soloists only kill squads

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Your arms too short to box with god.

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You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

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If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fullfill prophecy.

— Nas

Theres Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics. Call a truce, world peace, stop acting like savages.

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I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.

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We should take time and think, the bombs and tanks makes mankind extinct.

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I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time

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When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way.

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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,…

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In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can…

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Im never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder…

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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…

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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…

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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…

— Nas

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."…

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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

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People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the…

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Was young and nervous. Asking myself whats my purpose. In the back of a paddy wagon, bracelets aching me. Pigs ignoring, I'm…

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When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was…

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Sometimes I sit on the bench just to watch the game. Feet on cement, there ain't a mobster living I could name.…

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Hood forever, I just act like I'm civilized. Really what's in my mind is organizing a billion Black motherfuckers. To take over…

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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…

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Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I…

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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…

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So much to write and say, yo I don't know where to start. So I'll begin with the basics and flow from…

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But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth Rich men died and tried, but none of it…

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Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys…

— Nas

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than…

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If Heaven was a mile away Would I pack up my bags and leave this world behind? If Heaven was a mile…

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I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

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My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

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Simple-minded fools infiltrate grimy crews.

— Nas