“Live amongst no roses, only the drama, for real
A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja”

—  Nas

Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park)
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)

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American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur 1973

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