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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

— 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

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