If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

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Truth Grow Youth Told

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'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

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Album Back Bringing Career

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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

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Also Career Confidence Experience

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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

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Anybody Artist Classical Rapper

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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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According Changed Had How

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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

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Did Each Get Hate

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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

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Achievement Amazing Ask Enough

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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

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Divorce Divorces Easy Get

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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

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About Anything Being Faithful

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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

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Beautiful Beautiful Life Fun Get

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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

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Enjoy Enjoy Life Every Get

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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

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Get Hip Hop Lot Making

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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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About Competitive Gets Hand

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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

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Am Control I Am Know

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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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Art Forget Front Gotta

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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

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Always Going Love Matter

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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

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Combination Feeling Me Soul

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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

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About Anything Be Happy Being

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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

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About Anybody Dating Music

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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

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Channel Channels Discovery Good

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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

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American Better His Just

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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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Enough Feels Get Grown

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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

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Challenging Creatively Me Myself

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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

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Crazy Everybody Out Please

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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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Art Art World Galleries I Love

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

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Bigger Hip Hop New New York

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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

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Anything Biggest Could Promised

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I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

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Any Being Being Real Dollar

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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

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Able Being Blessed Career

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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.

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Gotta Happening Look Mind

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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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Because Daughters Fatherhood Help

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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

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Beautiful Beautiful Thing I Think Marriage

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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

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Crazy Crazy World Daughter Good

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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

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Any Barack Barack Obama Before

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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

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Any Be Prepared Beast Crazy

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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.

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Been Call Calling Conscious

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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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About American Life Make

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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

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Doing Easy Every Every Time

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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

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Conscious Doing Gangsta Just

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

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Beautiful Dramatic Good Heavy

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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

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America Basically Dead Hip Hop

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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

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America Could Government Help

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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

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African Black Everyone White

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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever.

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Ever Feel Just Me

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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

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Admire Ahead Entire Favorites

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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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Africa Been Going Has Been

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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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Around Bass Big Definitely

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With age comes common sense and wisdom.

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Age Common Sense Wisdom

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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

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Anymore Credit Even Expectations

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"50 Nas Quotes & Sayings

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

Nas

Read more, learn more, change the globe

Nas

'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

Nas

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Nas

Nas

I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

Nas

Nas

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

Nas

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

Nas

When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

Nas

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

Nas

Nas

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

Nas

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.

Nas

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

Nas

Nas

I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Nas

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

Nas

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

Nas

I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

Nas

Nas

To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

Nas

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Nas

Nas

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

Nas

No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Nas

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

Nas

Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.

Nas

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

Nas

Nas

When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

Nas

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

Nas

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

Nas

I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.

Nas

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

Nas

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

Nas

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

Nas

Nas

When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.