Nas

Nobody says you have to be ganstas and hoes. Read more, learn more, change the globe.

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The world crazy, Im rich and Im girl-crazy. Dick em, convince em all to praise me.

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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that's the real me.

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Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

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No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

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Dont speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

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With survival of the fittest, everyday is a challenge.

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I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her.

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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…

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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…

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We deal with money, cars, smog, pollution, and drugs. But being in the sky, they can fly and look at the world…

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Spotlight on me I still look twenty. Still get money, lady killer. Pushing a Bentley maybe niggas could see too much of…

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So many vices, habits. Mine of course, bad chicks. My response to any advice on what is the essentials of life. I'm…

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Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

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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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A lot of times it seems like, you ain't gon' make it where you wanna be in life. But, yo if you…

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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control…

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I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's…

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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan…

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New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where…

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Younger generation, they want to mimic and mock us. Laughing, separating themselves like they not us, like 'Cops'll look at you like…

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Beautiful life, often I dream that I can bring my niggas. Conservatives dont understand slang linguistics. The burbs talking like the hood…

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Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about. [...] You've always got…

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I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge, Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance. Lessons, detrimental to a…

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Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

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Give me a Smith and Wesson, Ill have niggaz undressin.

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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.

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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

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'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

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Whatever man thinks of manifests to the real, the plan is to wake up cause time reveals.

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I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be

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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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No matter how much cash I sit with, still gotta ask the lord for forgiveness.

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I thought no one could stop us. Matching gold watches. I was your Johnny Depp, you was my Janis Joplin.

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Gangsters dont die, niggas only become immortal. Angels dont only fly, they walk right before you.

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At seventeen I made seventeen thousand living in public housing.

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No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun...

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He who has ears, let him hear. And he who has sight, let him see. He who has life, let him be.

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That buck that bought a bottle couldve struck the lotto.

— Nas