“Then I rose, wiping the blunts ash from my clothes
then froze only to blow the herb smoke through my nose
and told my little man that i'm a go cyprose
there's some jewels in the skull that he can sell if he chose
words of wisdom from nas try to rise up above”

—  Nas

One Love
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)

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American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur 1973

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