“I'm like the farmer, planting words, people are seeds/ My truth is the soil, help you grow like trees/ May the children come in all colors, change like leaves/ Behold before you, one of those prophetic MC's.”

—  Nas

"Ghetto Prisoners"
On Albums, I Am... (1999)

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American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur 1973

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