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Magic City= Miami, which is famous for it´s hot women with little cloths and miss america pageants who i also known to be beutiful. But AZ is passing on them since so many want him and he can get even better women. He couldn´t even imagine this situation when he was a poor boy struggling to survive in a ghetto.

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His first album Doe or Die was one of the first mafioso rap album. The lyrics is real life based since he grew up in a area with a lot of crime.

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The Line is almost backwards, He has the proper approach to hip-hop and real hip-hop fans still want to listen to him since his lyrics aren´t watered down like alot of mainstream artists.

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Fugazzi means fake, the rap rulers aren’t the real ruler. AZ is the ruler/dictator like Sadam Hussein was of Iraq.

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You have to deny her sex and therefore do what you want so she can have sex again. Just like the Women of Athens and Sparta did not have sex with their men so they stop the war between their cities in the play Lysistrata.

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People says his time has been and doesn´t have it in him anymore, but AZ´s point is that it isn´t a has been. The reason why his album doesn´t sell as much or hasn´t released an album in years is because people don´t get him He is so ahead of his time. Alot of people (from painters to artists) become famous after they gone.

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Check out his earlier albums like Doe Or Die, Pieces of a Man or Aziatic! Records is widely know to sell with more pop feel and dubbed down lyrics so he doesn´t care how much his or your album sells. (Certified means selling platinum,1 million) Because not alot of mainstream rappers can rap like him.

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AZ is respected by the underground artist since he made the classic album Doe or Die and keeping his lyrics to his roots and not sellout. Contenders are often young and upcommer and mentions him as GOAT cause they listen to him growing up when alot of people knew about him. AZ is also mentioned on a lot of most underrated lists.

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She´s asking why he doesnt throw around his money, pay for everbodys drinks and show of in the club when he can.

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The swordsman zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by New York–based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The way Nas says it, it sound like sorrow. Like an ancient sorrow is the tale africas history. From the occupation, slave trade, their natural resources being used by other, starvation etc.

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