I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it.
NasNo temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.
NasI like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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