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"Fuck 'rap is real', watch the herbs stand still
never talkin' to snakes cause the words of man kill
true in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins

— Nas Illmatic (1994)

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

I Am (1999)

"Street scriptures, for lost souls in the crossroads.."

I Am (1999)

I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret.

It Was Written (1996)

From child births to hearses, flow like the Nile covered surface
Bit the fruit from the serpent.

It Was Written (1996)

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

The Lost Tapes (2002)

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